L'alchimie et les alchimistes : ou, Essai historique et critique sur la philosophie hermétique / par Louis Figuier.
Louis Figuier's historical and critical essay on alchemy and hermetic philosophy, a French scholarly treatise printed in Paris for a general reading audience. The picture is a plain title page in black capitals on cream paper, with a small printed vignette at the foot and a central imprint of Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1860, third edition; a designer could take its centred typographic hierarchy, letterspaced small caps and generous margins as a model for classical book typography.
