Geschichte und gegenwärtiger Zustand der Optik : vorzüglich in Absicht auf den physikalischen Theil dieser Wissenschaft
A German-language history of optics by Georg Simon Klügel, with an English source by Joseph Priestley, published in 1775 by Junius for readers of physics and natural philosophy. The pictures are small printed headpieces and tailpieces in a rococo style, showing scrolling acanthus-like ornament, shell forms, clipped trees and garden architecture drawn in fine black line on a warm paper ground. A designer might take from them the asymmetrical C-scroll and shell vocabulary of mid-eighteenth-century decorative borders, usable as dividers or framing elements.
