Accession number
PML 34895
Creator
Longus.
Published
Paris, Imprimées pour les curieux, 1757.
Description
viii, 269 p. illus. 21 cm.
Notes
Collation: *4; A-Z[superscript]; Aa-L14(-4).
Exhibited by ... Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Bookbindings, London, 1891. Cat. 102, plate 103.
Translations of Amyot and Le Camus printed on opposite pages.
Frontispiece engraved by Audran after Coype
Exhibited by ... Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Bookbindings, London, 1891. Cat. 102, plate 103.
Translations of Amyot and Le Camus printed on opposite pages.
Frontispiece engraved by Audran after Coype
Binding
18th century French olive morocco; in green morocco case. Gold tooled and inlaid mosaic by Louis Douceur with his ticket.
Provenance
From the collection of Mortimer L. Schiff (sale London, 24 March, 1938, lot 282). Crest of Joseph Gulston (1745-1786) of Ealing Grove, Middlesex, and number 1757 on second label of back.
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