La magie blanche dévoilée, ou, Explication des tours surprennants, qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la capitale et de la province : avec des réflexions sur la baguette divinatoire, les automates joueurs d'échecs, &c. &c
A 1784 Paris book by Henri Decremps, published by Langlois and the author, explaining stage magic tricks and automata such as the chess-playing machine for a general reading public. Its pictures are small printed ornaments and one framed plate of figures before a crowd, with a sun-and-leaf head ornament, a cherub with a garland beside a dated cartouche, and a fruit-and-foliage spray, which a designer could draw on for classical borders, tailpieces and vignettes.
