Sermons prêchez devant son altesse roïale Madame la Duchesse d'Yorck
A 1684 French sermon collection by Claude de La Colombière, printed in Lyon by Anisson, Posuel & Rigaud for the Duchess of York. The pictures are wood-engraved horizontal headpieces in a Baroque scrollwork border, with a central roundel holding two standing figures in a radiating sunburst and flanking lion-like heads and foliage. A designer could take from them the symmetrical cartouche layout and the dense, flowing ornament typical of seventeenth-century French printed decoration.
