Josephi Pitton Tournefort Institutiones rei herbariae
A 1700 botanical textbook printed in Paris by the Royal Printing House, written by the French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort for students of plant classification. Its pictures are small decorative tailpieces and headpieces: a flower-garlanded urn in woodcut form, a scrolled cartouche with a crown, and a sunburst ornament among acanthus scrolls. A designer could take from them the botanical garland and urn motif and the rhythm of symmetrical scrollwork for vignettes and dividers.
