Accession number
PML 195992
Published
Paris : De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1791.
Credit line
Gordon N. Ray Fund,
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, Do
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, Do
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
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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