Anecdotes des beaux-arts : contenant tout ce que la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, l'architecture, la littérature, la musique, &c. ... : avec des notes historiques & critiques, & des tables raisonnées ... / par M. ***
A three-volume French compilation of anecdotes on painting, sculpture, engraving, architecture, literature and music, written by Pierre Jean Baptiste Nougaret and printed by Jean-François Bastien in Paris in 1776 for art-minded readers. The plates here are typographic ornaments — woodcut headpieces and tailpieces with radiant sun faces, flower-filled urns, acanthus scrolls and swagged garlands — usable as rules, dividers and spot decoration.
