Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'en 1800
A nineteenth-century Paris reprint of exhibition catalogues from the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, edited by Jules Guiffrey and issued in 1869 for art readers and historians. The pictures are small black-and-white ornamental headpieces of a royal shield with crown and fleur-de-lis flanked by scrolling acanthus foliage, useful to a designer studying classical French heraldic borders and symmetrical panel layouts.
