Causeries sur l'art et la curiosité
Essays on art collecting and connoisseurship by Edmond Bonnaffé, published in Paris by A. Quantin in 1878 for French amateurs and collectors. The plates here are square white-on-black initial letters set in scrolling foliage, honeysuckle and fleuron motifs, cut in a Renaissance revival manner and usable as drop caps, monogram stock or tile-like ornament.
