Les cent merveilles des sciences et des arts / par M. de Marlès
A French illustrated book of popular science and the arts, written by J. de Marlès and published at Tours by Ad Mame et Cie in 1855, aimed at general readers. Its binding is a blue and gilt cover with floral cartouches and a small hand-coloured vignette of a horse-drawn carriage passing a tall building with a young woman and child on the roadside, which a designer could draw on for ornate blue-and-gold pattern work or for quiet nineteenth-century genre scenes.
