Recherches et doutes sur le magnétisme animal / Par M. Thouret.
A 1784 Paris treatise on animal magnetism by Auguste Thouret, published by Prault for a French readership interested in Mesmerist theory and its doubters. Its two pictures are small printed ornaments: a laurel-wreathed roundel with a script monogram radiating rays, and a classical garland-and-urn border with a ribbon bow. A designer could take from them the restrained late eighteenth-century French vocabulary of laurel, swags, and ribbon for emblems and page headers.
