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A French type specimen book by Pierre Simon Fournier, published in 1764, presenting printing types, ornaments and typographic material for printers and typefounders. The pictures are small printed fleurons, borders, rules and numbered ornamental strips with page numbers beside them, showing how typographic ornament was built from repeated units; a designer can take from them modular rule patterns, corner pieces and symmetrical centrepiece motifs.
