Paris guide
A French illustrated guide to Paris published in 1867 by Librairie internationale in Paris with co-publishers in Brussels, Leipzig and Livorno, aimed at travellers and readers of French art and architecture. Its two plates are wood-engraved views after drawings by named architects, showing a Gothic-revival church facade with a tall spire and a long Paris palace front with trees and a sweeping lawn in the foreground. A designer might take from them the crisp black line work on pale blue paper and the strong vertical massing of the church against the open street scene.
