Accession number:
PML 127611
Published:
A Paris : En la boutique de P. Rocolet : chez Damien Foucault, 1664.
Credit:
Fellows Fund, special gift of Julia P. Wightman; 1994.
Description:
1 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 20 cm. (4to)
Notes:
Edited by Jean Balesdens; with his preface to Mme. Seguier, as well as another preface to her by Rocolet.
An earlier edition of Exercice spirituel ... par V.C.P. Paris 1676. Compiled by Louis Cousin (1627-1707), Paul Pellison-Fontanier (1624-1693), and others; revised by Jean Balesdens (NUC 164:507).
Exhibited: Grolier Club 1903, no. 230.
In the central oval on the upper cover, a portrait bust of Christ, on the lower cover, a portrait of the Virgin similarly executed. Both portraits after the engraved facing portraits of the insert in the book's frontmatter, each engraving signed Da[mien].Foucault.
Boxed (needs reboxing). Almanac (table of movable feasts) for 1664-1690.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding:
Bound in white silk over pasteboards, with floral embroideries in red, blue, green, and white on both covers and spine; very high-relief (stumpwork) silver bullion embroidery on upper and lower covers; pink silk linings; broad pink silk place-marker ribbon; gilt edges. In the central oval on the upper cover, a portrait bust of Christ, on the lower cover, a portrait of the Virgin similarly executed. Both portraits after the engraved facing portraits of the insert in the book's frontmatter, each engraving signed Da[mien]. Foucault.
Variant Title:
Exercice spiritvel
Provenance:
Robert Hoe (his sale, part II, 1912, lot 223), to Quaritch; J. Roland Abbey (his sale, lot 1844).
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