Relation de l'Islande
Relation de l'Islande is a 1663 French account of Iceland, published in Paris by Louis Billaine and attributed to Isaac de La Peyrère and François de La Mothe Le Vayer, written for a learned French readership. Its two pictures are a small heraldic coat of arms with a crest, scrolled mantling and a banner reading 'GAUDIED', and a line of dense black letterpress text in French, one of which carries a long s; a designer might take the armorial cartouche as a model for crest and shield ornament and the close-set type as a texture reference.
