Mélanges d'histoire et de litterature
Mélanges d'histoire et de litterature is a 1700 French miscellany of anecdotes and literary history, published at Rotterdam by Elie Yvans and drawn from a Duke University library collection. Its four pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a foliate scrolled strapwork band with a central face, a repeating geometric border, a flower basket, and a decorated initial L with curling acanthus-like foliage. A designer could draw on these for period borders, dividers, and decorative capitals.
