L'image et la Bibliothèque bleue normande

Ségolène Le Men : Illustration in the Bibliothèque bleue in Normandy. This article studies the function of the few pictures to be found in these chap-books, which is not that of modern illustration. Full-page illustrations and vignettes are distinguished from ornaments, which show a certain technical mastery. Despite the unchanging subject-matter, the type and position of illustrations evolve ; in the 18th Century, they tend to be found mainly on the title-page in the form of a vignette indicating the literary genre, a part of the reading public or the region. In books with several illustrations there is a greater use of specially-adapted woodcuts. After the upheavals of the Revolution, the genre reemerges, and the collections made at the end of the 19th Century form the basis for our present knowledge.Le Men Ségolène. L'image et la Bibliothèque bleue normande. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°18, 1986. Littératures françaises. pp. 98-116