Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugene [microforme]

Bouhours, Dominique, 1628-1702 · 1671 · Paris: S. Mabre-Cramois · 20 pictures

Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugene is a 1671 French dialogue on taste and style by the Jesuit writer Dominique Bouhours, printed in Paris by S. Mabre-Cramois for a learned reading public. Its pictures are small decorative head-pieces and tailpieces in a dark, grainy engraved manner, including a landscape vignette, a mask-like emblem with trumpets and ribbons, and a woman's face framed by fruit and scrolls, offering designers compact ornamental borders and emblem motifs.

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