Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history in French, written by Claude-Pierre Goujet and printed in Paris by Jean Mariette, with this imprint dated 1738 and aimed at readers of church history. The first picture is a large display heading, SOMMAIRE DES LIVRES, set in classical capitals above a band of small ornamental fleurons, while the second is a decorative headpiece showing a library interior with bookshelves, a desk, and a shield bearing fleurs-de-lis flanked by scrolling acanthus leaves. A designer could take the cut-paper style scrollwork and the contrast between spaced capitals and dense repeated ornament as models for title pages.
