Annales de chimie et de physique
A French scientific periodical, the Annales de chimie et de physique, published in Paris from 1789 for chemists and physicists reporting experiments and memoirs. The pictures indexed here are not diagrams but the printer's relief ornaments that divide its articles: small symmetrical headpieces and tailpieces of flower baskets, roses, acanthus scrolls and leafy sprays, inked unevenly on laid paper, useful as section breaks, rules and decorative stamps.










