Traité de la paresse, ou, L'art de bien employer le temps en toute sorte de conditions
A 1677 Paris treatise on idleness and the good use of time, written by Antoine de Courtin and published by H. Josset, aimed at readers seeking practical morals and household economy. Its small woodcut ornaments show a heraldic-style mask flanked by birds, a crowned monogram tablet with the letter S, a flowering urn, and a crowned tablet with the letter A, offering a designer rich decorative vocabulary of baroque scrollwork, crowns and emblematic motifs for borders, dividers or chapter openers.
