Traité historique, et moral, du blason : ouvrage rempli de recherches curieuses & instructives, sur l'origine & les progrès de cet art
A French treatise on the history and moral significance of heraldry by Jean Baptiste Dupuy-Demportes, printed by Jean Neaulme at Amsterdam and Berlin in 1754 for gentleman readers, this copy from John Adams's library. The indexed images are all hand-marbled endpapers in ochre, rust-red and blue-green, with combed snail-shell curls, veined drag patterns and scattered spots, useful as ready-made pattern fills, cover paper, or texture over aged laid stock.
