Essai Sur Le Beau
Essai Sur Le Beau is an 1763 philosophical treatise on beauty by Yves Marie André, held by Heidelberg University Library and printed for scholarly readers of aesthetics. Its two pictures are small printers' ornaments set into the text: a fleur-de-lis lattice within a framed cartouche, and a symmetrical scroll-and-garland frame with floral sprays. Designers could draw on their compact, mirrored, eighteenth-century decorative vocabulary for borders and monograms.
