Excerpt from Les Arts de l'Ameublement: Les StylesStylos en grec, et stylus en latin, désignent une sorte de poinçon, aigu à l'une de ses extrémités, rond et aplati à l'autre bout, qu'on employait jadis pour écrire sur des tablettes enduites de cire. La pointe servait à tracer les caractères, la tête arrondie à les effacer. De l'instrument.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.