Relation contenant l'histoire de l'Académie françoise
A 1653 Paris printed history of the Académie française by Paul Pellisson-Fontanier, published by P. Le Petit, a French-language text for a learned readership. Its pictures are small black-ink woodcut and engraved ornaments: a garland of putti with fruit, a basket of flowers, a decorative initial I with foliage, and a cherub pair framing a cross. A designer could draw on these as period border strips, flower-basket vignettes, foliated capitals, and putto frames.
