Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history in French by Claude-Pierre Goujet, printed in Paris by Jean Mariette in 1738 for a scholarly readership of church history. Its single picture is a copperplate-style title vignette: a seated, muscular figure draped over a lion skin beside a serpent, framed by columns, fruiting foliage and a ribbon bearing the motto HAEC META LABOR, all set on a scrolled cartouche. A designer could take its symmetrical framing, scrolled ornament and classical allegorical emblem as a model for bookplate or heraldic-style border work.
