Dialogues sur les arts : entre un artiste ameriquain et un amateur françois
A 1755 French treatise on painting and aesthetics by Pierre Est\u00e8ve, cast as dialogues between an American artist and a French amateur, printed for Paris booksellers with an Amsterdam imprint and aimed at educated readers of art theory. The pictures are small letterpress tailpieces and ornaments cut in wood \u2014 scrolling acanthus, flower baskets, shells, lattice-filled cartouches, some signed by the cutter Caron \u2014 usable as page dividers, monogram frames, and rococo border stock.
