Paris as it was and as it is, or, A sketch of the French capital : illustrative of the effects of the revolution, with respect to sciences, literature, arts, religion, education, manners, and amusements : comprising also a correct account of the most remarkable national establishments and public buildings : in a series of letters, written by an English traveller, during the years 1801-2, to a friend in London
A travel account of Paris published in London in 1803 by Francis William Blagdon, written as letters from an English traveller to a friend after the Revolution. The single plate is a bookplate of an armorial shield with a crest of a perched eagle, a motto scroll reading Pallegaris, and the handwritten name Gent. Aylmer beneath it. A designer could take from it the restrained engraved heraldic style, with its crisp line hatching and centred symmetrical composition.
