Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes. Avec und dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure & sur les premiers livres d'images
Heinecken's 1771 treatise on print collecting and the origins of engraving, published in Leipzig and Vienna by J.P. Kraus for collectors and scholars of early illustrated books. Its plates reproduce early woodcut picture books: framed panels with Latin and French captions, medieval-style figures in robes, and a small putto ornament, which a designer could use for historical woodcut layout and caption-panel structure.
