Dictionnaire portatif des arts et metiers. Contenant en abrégé l'histoire, la description & la police des arts et métiers, des fabriques et manufactures de France & des pays etrangers
A French pocket dictionary of trades and crafts compiled by Pierre Joseph Macquer and published in Paris in 1766 for artisans and manufacturers across France and abroad. The two pictures are small woodcut floral clusters, one of stylised roses and blossoms with leaves and the other of rounded blooms with serrated foliage, showing how period craft guides drew ornament for printed decoration. A designer could take from them simple botanical motifs with hatched shading suited to borders, vignettes, or heading ornaments.
