Recveil general des oevvres et fantaisies de Tabarin : divisé en deux parties : contenant ses rencontres, questions & demandes facetieuses, auec leurs responses
A 1623 Paris collection of jests and comic dialogues by Tabarin, the seventeenth-century French comic performer, published by Anthoine de Sommaville for a general reading public. The pictures are small decorated initial letters, some with foliage, figures and scrollwork, set beside the printed French text, showing how ornamental capitals were built into a text page.








