Remarques historiques sur les médailles et les monnoyes
A French 1740 treatise on historical remarks about medals and coins, held by Heidelberg University Library, with ornaments in its text. The pictures are woodcut decorative tailpieces and headpieces: a fan-shaped shell motif with acanthus scrolls and leafy sprays, plus horizontal bands of foliate scrollwork with dotted rosettes. A designer could draw on their symmetrical acanthus scrolls, shell fans and dotted borders for classical framing.
