De la lecture des livres francois : des livres écrits en françois au seizieme siecle, qui traitent de l'architecture, & des progrès de cet art jusqu'au dix-septieme
A 1782 Paris bibliography by Nicolas-Léger Moutard, printed by the queen's printer-bookseller, listing French-language architecture books of the sixteenth century and their artistic progress into the seventeenth. The two pictures are small letterpress printers' ornaments: a wide strapwork and foliage cartouche with a central urn, and a tiny ruined-tower landscape vignette under a 'volume détaché' caption. A designer could take from them the scale and rhythm of classical ornament and the compact vocabulary of tailpiece vignettes.
