La Mythologie Et Les Fables Expliquées Par L'Histoire
Antoine Banier's La Mythologie et les Fables Expliquées par l'Histoire, printed in 1739 and held by Heidelberg University Library, is a French mythology treatise written for readers of classical fables. The single picture is a woodcut tailpiece or headpiece showing a pedestal or shelf stacked with a globe, open books, a lectern, a ewer, and bundled tools, set in a tapering ornamental base. A designer could take from it a compact emblem model for arranging still-life objects around a central plinth, suited to scholarly or antique-style decoration.
