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, expliquées en prose & en vers
An emblem dictionary compiled and published by Daniel de la Feuille in Amsterdam in 1700, explaining medals, passions, morals, virtues and vices through hieroglyphic figures glossed in French prose and verse, for learned readers and engravers. The plates shown are wide woodcut headpiece bands of dense scrolling foliate arabesque, usable as rules, borders, repeating strip patterns or coarse-grained texture fills.
