Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history by Claude-Pierre Goujet, printed in Paris in 1738 by Jean Mariette at the sign of the Pillars of Hercules, for a learned readership of church history. Its three ornaments are engraved headpieces and vignettes built from acanthus scrolls, urns, garlands and foliage, with one showing a seated Hercules beneath the motto HAEC META LABORUM; a designer could draw on their dense, symmetrical ornamental framing and classical cartouche structure.
