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Vignette Fri Jul 07 2000 at 19:25:11 The earliest part of the sixteenth century has been called the golden age of printing, the development of engraving lending a hand and the subsequent improvement in book illustration, with engraved or decorated title-pages as well as vignettes or headpieces or tailpieces in the text. As a “decorative design” they first appeared in 1751. The word was first borrowed from the diminutive of the Old French word vigne for vineyard and later became the French word vignette, both related to the root word vine. One who creates vignettes is called a vign...
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