Histoire ecclésiastique.
An ecclesiastical history printed in Paris by Jean Mariette, with the imprint dated 1738 and the text attributed to Claude-Pierre Goujet, written for a learned French readership of church history. The three pictures are engraved headpieces and a tailpiece-like scene: a crowned fleur-de-lis ornament with laurel sprays, a symmetrical scrolled cartouche with fleurs-de-lis and foliage, and a formal interior where a bishop-like figure in a mitre presides over clergy and courtiers in cloaks. A designer could draw on the crisp scrolled ornament and the laurel-and-crown emblem for period borders and monograms.
