L'ecole de la mignature : dans laquelle on peut aisément apprendre à peindre sans maitre, ainsi que les secrets de faire les plus belles couleurs, l'or brunni et l'or en coquille ...
A 1759 Brussels reprint of Claude Boutet's manual on miniature painting, colour recipes and gilding, printed by Jean Moris for amateur painters working without a teacher. Its illustrations are letterpress ornament: woodcut headbands of acanthus scrollwork flanking shells and urns, and tailpiece baskets with crossed laurel branches, usable as rules, dividers and small repeating borders.






















