Essay d'un dictionnaire contenant la connoissance du monde, des sciences universelles, et particulierement celle des medailles, des passions, des moeurs, des vertus et des vices, &c. : representé par des figures hyerogliphiques, expliquèes en prose & en vers
An emblem dictionary compiled by Daniel de la Feuille and printed at Wesel in 1700, explaining medals, passions, morals, virtues and vices through hieroglyphic figures with prose and verse commentary for engravers, medallists and learned readers. The plates set fifteen numbered circular medallions in a grid, each a line-engraved allegorical figure with a lettered French caption below, giving designers ready roundel devices, personifications and a repeatable labelled-grid layout.
