Exposition universelle internationale de 1878 a Paris : Groupe IV, classe 39 : rapport sur la joaillerie et la bijouterie
This is an 1880 report printed by the Imprimerie nationale in Paris, written by Martial Bernard for the French Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce on jewellery and watchmaking at the 1878 Paris Exposition universelle. The picture is only a title-page printer's mark, showing a crest with an N monogram flanked by winged figures above the words Paris and Imprimerie nationale, plus a rubber library stamp and handwritten shelf numbers. A designer could take from it the formal, symmetrical language of nineteenth-century French state printing, with its crest, flanking putti and spaced capitals.
