Tragedies
Tragedies by Robert Garnier, published in Lyon in 1600 by the heirs of B. Rigaud, a French verse drama collection printed for a literate readership. The pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a large decorated initial letter, an interlaced scrolling cartouche repeated twice, and a decorated capital N with foliage and grotesque faces. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical strapwork and flourish vocabulary of late sixteenth-century French book decoration.
