Babioles
Babioles is a 1793 book whose catalogue record gives no maker, place, or readership, so the pictures alone define it. The two pictures are small woodcut-style tailpieces and vignettes printed on rough, warm-toned paper: one shows a cluster of roses, buds and grapes with leaves in loose, sketchy strokes, the other a palm-like plant rising from a stepped plinth with a seated putto. A designer might take their compact, self-contained ornament and the way flowers and classical motifs are arranged around a central form.
