Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is a French church history printed in Paris in 1738 by Jean Mariette, whose shop sign appears in the imprint, and it was made for a learned Catholic readership. Its single picture is a decorative engraved headpiece showing a library-like room with bookshelves, a desk, and a crowned shield bearing fleurs-de-lis, framed by rococo scrollwork; a designer might borrow the ornate cartouche border and the heraldic shield as a framing device.
