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Recueïl de descriptions de peintures et d'autres ouvrages faits pour le Roy

Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695, Mabre Cramoisy, veuve, publisher · 1689 · A Paris : Chez la Veuve de Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy Imprimeur du Roy, ruë Saint Jacques, aux Cicognes · 6 pictures

André Félibien's collected descriptions of paintings, tapestries and other works made for Louis XIV, printed in Paris in 1689 by the widow of Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, the King's printer, for court readers and connoisseurs. The pictures shown here are small woodcut typographic ornaments — tailpieces of massed flowers, leaves and fruit, urns and baskets, a crowned bloom — usable as chapter breaks, borders, spot motifs or repeat-pattern source material.

Art, French · Art, Modern · Emblems · Emblem books, French

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