Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an eighteenth-century French church history by Claude-Pierre Goujet, printed in Paris by Jean Mariette in 1738 and aimed at scholars and readers of ecclesiastical history. Its two pictures are black-and-white copperplate-style headpieces: one a dense cartouche of acanthus scrolls and foliage, the other a classical scene of a seated Hercules beneath a banner reading HAEC META LABORUM, framed by pillars and vines. A designer might borrow the scrolled cartouche frame and the Hercules-and-banner emblem as ornamental devices for a learned or antiquarian title page.
