Introduction à la géographie : par un instituteur
This is a French geography primer for schoolchildren by the schoolmaster Antoine Monastier, printed in 1817 by the Imprimerie d'Highou Aîné. The two pictures show fragments of a decorative pattern rather than scenes, with stacked rust-red and black zigzag triangles over a pale ground and thin blue-green sprigs of leaves. A designer could take from them a ready source of stylised foliage and sawtooth border motifs with a faded, hand-painted quality.
