La doctrine des murs
La doctrine des murs is a 1685 French moral treatise published in Paris by A. Soubron and J. Le Gras, with text by Marin Le Roy de Gomberville and engravings attributed to Pierre Daret. The four pictures are small decorative headpieces of the kind printed at chapter openings, built from symmetrical floral garlands, paired birds, scrollwork, and a central face or urn. A designer could take from them a model for ornamental headers, symmetrical emblem compositions, and the decorative vocabulary of seventeenth-century French book printing.
