Les menus & programmes illustrés; invitations, billets de faire part, cartes d'adresse, petites estampes du XVIIe siècle jusqu'à nos jours
A 1898 Paris survey by Léon Maillard, with contributions tied to Alphonse Mucha, of illustrated menus, programmes, invitations and trade cards from the seventeenth century onward, aimed at collectors and printers. The pictures range from a crowded interior scene with a lettered banner to ornate cartouche frames with garlands and cherubs, a reclining couple under a theatre-programme heading, and an empty classical border with figures at its base, offering a designer useful models for decorative framing, lettering and page layout.
