Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois
A French treatise on wood engraving by Jean-Michel Papillon, published in Paris in 1766 by Pierre Guillaume Simon, written as a historical and practical guide for engravers and printers. Its pictures are small printed tailpieces and headpieces of flowers, foliage, ornamental scrolls, a bird on a ribbon-tied bundle, and a cornucopia with urns, showing how compact decorative block cuts were built to fill page gaps and could be borrowed for borders and vignettes.
