Bibliotheque Des Artistes Et Des Amateurs: Ou Tablettes Analytiques, Et Méthodiques, Sur Les Sçiences Et Les Beaux Arts: Ouvrage utile à l'Instruction de la Jeunesse, à l'usage des Personnes de tout âge & de tout état ...
A mid-eighteenth-century French reference work on the sciences and fine arts, compiled by Jean-Raymond de Petity and published in 1766 for young readers and general audiences, as the catalogue record indicates. Its pictures are small decorative headpieces and vignettes in woodcut style, showing foliage scrolls, flower baskets, cherubs and shell ornaments, useful to a designer for period ornament, border and cartouche arrangements.
