Dictionnaire de chifres et de lettres ornées, a l'usage de tous les artistes : contenant les vingt-quatre lettres de l'alphabet, combinées de maniere à y rencontrer tous les noms & surnoms entrelassés : pour faire suite au Traité des pierres précieuses & parures de joyalerie
A French dictionary of ornamental ciphers and decorated letters, published in Paris in 1767 by N.M. Tilliard and compiled by Pouget and Littret de Montigny for jewellers and engravers as a companion to a treatise on precious stones. The plates show interlaced monograms of the alphabet arranged in oval frames and grids, with flourished capitals in fine engraved line, giving designers a dense reference of letter combinations for cartouches, seals and decorative lettering.
