Les Conseils d'Ariste a Celimene, sur les moyens de conserver sa réputation. Nouv
A 1692 Paris edition of Abbé d'Aubignac's French advice treatise to a young woman on preserving her reputation, published by V. Pepingue and aimed at adolescent readers. Its pictures are small printers' ornaments: a repeated scrolled border block, a grotesque mask flanked by animals, a decorated initial V in a framed square, and a CONCORDIA cornucopia tailpiece. A designer could draw on these compact, reusable seventeenth-century ornament units for borders, dividers and monogram frames.
