Livre de chiffres a double traits, ou l'on trouve les noms & surnoms. : Vtile aux peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et autres. Dedia Monseigneur le Dauphin
A 1685 monogram pattern book published in Paris by Charles Mavelot, dedicated to the Dauphin and aimed at painters, sculptors, engravers and other craftsmen. The pictures are interlaced double-stroke letter monograms built from looping, curling strokes that cross and tuck under one another. A designer could take from them the method of combining two initials into one dense, symmetrical emblem with swirled terminals.
