Bibliographie instructive
Bibliographie instructive is a bibliographical reference work by Guillaume François de Bure, published in 1764, catalogued here with the Cicognara bibliography subjects and held by Heidelberg University Library. The two pictures are nearly identical small printed ornaments: a central starburst inside concentric rings, surrounded by a scalloped border of loops with fleuron-like sprigs at the corners. A designer could take from them a compact, symmetrical eighteenth-century printer's ornament suited to framing a title, dividing a page, or marking a section break.
