Oeuvres de Mr. Capistron
A late seventeenth-century French collection of plays by Jean Galbert de Campistron, printed in Paris in 1690 by T. Guillain for a literary readership. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, each a large capital letter framed by dense hatched lines and curling foliate scrolls. A designer could take from them the hatched-background letterform style used for drop caps and display type in historical or ornamental layouts.
