Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history by Claude-Pierre Goujet, published in Paris by Jean Mariette in 1738, with the Hercules-columns imprint used for a French readership. The first picture is an engraved scene of robed figures on a stone staircase beside a tall building, with a crowd and a spear-bearing guard on a raised wooden platform in the background, and the second is a title vignette of a seated Hercules-like figure between fruiting columns beneath the Latin motto 'Haec meta laborum'. A designer could take the crowded architectural perspective of the first and the ornamental framing of the second, with its scrolled cartouche and garlands, as models for layout.
