La librairie : l'édition musicale, la presse, la reliure, l'affiche à l'exposition universelle de 1900 ; recueil précédé d'une notice historique par Lucien Layus
This is a Paris trade publication from 1900, compiled by the Cercle de la Librairie and edited by Lucien Layus, documenting French publishing, bookbinding, music printing and posters for the Exposition universelle. The pictures are fine black-and-white halftone and line reproductions: a bookbinding design with fleur-like ornament and cipher monogram, a framed portrait set within Gothic tracery, an allegorical engraved frontispiece with winged figure above a garden scene, and a bronze-style medal with seated and standing female figures. A designer could take from them ornamental borders, monogram layouts and classical allegory as period decorative references.
