Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history printed in Paris by Jean Mariette, with the 1738 imprint and a text attributed to Claude-Pierre Goujet, written for a learned French readership. Its pictures are small black-and-white devices: a fleshy classical headpiece with a motto ribbon and a foliage-framed Hercules-like figure, an acanthus-scroll ornament with a cherub face, and a single engraved scene of a robed figure reaching toward a winged figure in a rocky landscape, offering a designer compact decorative vignettes and scrollwork to borrow for headers and tailpieces.
