Le Modèle des jeunes gens, dans la vie édifiante de Claude Le Peletier de Souci, ètudiant en philosophie en l'Université de Paris / par l'abbé Proyart
A French devotional book by the abbé Liévin-Bonaventure Proyart, published in Limoges by Barbou frères in 1849, presenting the pious life of a Paris philosophy student as a model for young men. Its binding is a gilt-stamped cover with a rococo cartouche enclosing a Chinese-style scene of a pagoda, bridge, and figures in a garden, rendered in brown-gold on cream. A designer could take the symmetrical scrolling frame and the chinoiserie vignette as a model for ornate tooled-cover patterns.
