Tableaux du temple des muses : tirez du cabinet de feu Mr. Favereau, conseiller du roy en sa cour des Aydes & grauez en tailles-douces par les meilleurs maistr s de son temps pour representer les vertus & les vices sur les plus illustres fables de l'antiquité
A 1655 Paris folio by Michel de Marolles, reproducing the engraved mythological plates from Jacques Favereau's cabinet by Cornelis Bloemaert, Pierre Brebiette and others, issued for collectors and readers of classical fable as moral instruction. Alongside the intaglio scenes of gods and heroes run square woodcut initials packed with tulips, pinks, pomegranates and leafy stems, cut in heavy black line on white, usable as drop caps, spot ornaments or tiled border patterns.
