Some borders and symbols scanned from Volume two of Manuel Typographique, utile Aux Gens de Lettres by Fournier the younger, Paris, 1766. My edition is a fac simile.
![[picture: 132.---Diverses: Les Planètes.]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Fournier-ManuelTypographique-VolII/tn/132-Les-Planetes-q90-289x500.jpg "[picture: 132.---Diverses: Les Planètes.]")
This page shows various alchemical or astrological symbols together with their (French) names, set in a border. [more...]
![[picture: 133.---Figures.]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Fournier-ManuelTypographique-VolII/tn/133-Figures-pour-les-Missels-q100-288x500.jpg "[picture: 133.---Figures.]")
Figures
Pour les Missels. [i.e. for prayer-books and religious music] [more...]
![[picture: Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Fournier-ManuelTypographique-VolII/tn/133-Figures-pour-les-Missels-border-q100-286x500.jpg "[picture: Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels]")
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
This is an 18th century French border used to surround a page; it is not modern, slick and perfect. For example, one part of the border near the top left corner is actually upside down. But its [...]whole page. [more...]
![[picture: Quaint Pointy Hands And Things]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Fournier-ManuelTypographique-VolII/tn/133-Figures-pour-les-Missels-detail-signs-d-indication-q75-500x267.jpg "[picture: Quaint Pointy Hands And Things]")
Quaint Pointy Hands And Things
Some 18th century printed signs of direction, including pointing hands (called an index today), and also rings pieced by arrows, from page 133. [more...]
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