Arts et métiers mecaniques
Arts et métiers mécaniques is a 1782 French encyclopedia of trades and mechanical arts, produced in Paris by Panckoucke's publishing house with type and printing by Didot's Imprimerie de Monsieur, for craftsmen and readers of the Encyclopédie Méthodique era. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut-style head and tail pieces of scrolling acanthus, rococo cartouches and flower sprays printed in the margins of text pages, useful to a designer seeking historic ornament dividers, rule borders and 18th-century decorative motifs for headers or page breaks.
