Les sermons de S. Augustin sur le Nouveau Testament
A 1694 Paris sermon collection by Saint Augustine, edited by Philippe Goibaud Du Bois and published by Jean Baptiste Coignard for a scholarly and devout readership. The two pictures are small Baroque printed devices: a heraldic shield with a rampant lion, scrolls and acanthus ornament, and a woodcut-style emblem of a seated angel and a robed figure beneath rays of light, with an open book lettered Alpha et Omega. A designer could draw on their dense hatched shading, scrolled cartouches and radiant emblematic framing for period-style title pages or ornament.
