Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is a French church history published in Paris by Jean Mariette, with a title page and section openers, its 1738 imprint suggesting a scholarly readership of clergy and learned lay readers. Its engraved frontispiece shows a seated ruler in a canopied bed receiving robed visitors before a walled city with domes and a minaret, while a second emblem of a seated bearded figure wrapped around a serpent under a banner reading HAEC META LABORUM, framed by vines and columns, and a third panel displays a decorative border above the word SOMMAIRE. A designer could take the formal baroque architecture of the frames, the drapery and crowd groupings, and the classical capitals and ornamental scrollwork for historical display typography.
