Accession number:
PML 195992
Published:
Paris : De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1791.
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2013.
Description:
[4], iv, 179 p. ; 15 cm.
Notes:
Includes half-title.
Includes index.
“Achevé d'imprimer le 30. 7bre. 1791. Baudouin.” (p. 116).
This copy printed on vellum.
Letterpress title-page. At least two of the vellum copies have an engraved title (viz. PML 18865 and lot 295, Dominique de Villepin sale, Pierre Bergé, 29 Nov. 2013).
Binding:
Full blue gilt-tooled straight-grain goatskin by Bozerian, signed on the spine, moiré silk doublures, tricolor headband, with a green gilt-tooled goatskin slipcase. The slipcase may have been supplied by an early owner such as Charles Chardin, whose sale catalogue calls for an "étui de m[aroquin]."
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Charles Chardin (sale catalogue, 1824, no. 519); succession Legueltel (sale catalogue, Ader-Picard-Tajan, 14 Nov. 1979, no. 32); Michel Wittock (sale catalogue, Alde, 24 Oct. 2013, lot 18). Bookplate of Michel Wittock.
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