Accession number:
PML 196220
Published:
A Paris : Chez Chaubert ..., 1751.
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2015.
Description:
[6], xl, [4], 242 [i.e. 244], [4] p. : ill. (engravings) ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Notes:
Pages [63]-64 repeated in pagination.
Attributed to Le Franc de Pompignan. Cf. Cohen-De Ricci.
Engraved vignettes signed: H. Gravelot, Eti. Fessard, Depalmeus P., J.J. Pasquier, C.B. The Morgan has two preliminary drawings by Gravelot for the vignette on p. 3.
"De l'imprimerie de Le Breton ..., 1751": p. [2] at end.
Pochoir borders in red, green and gold.
Errata: p. [xli].
Binding:
Olive morocco gilt-tooled in a dentelle pattern and signed Plumet, silk doublures and gilt flyleaves, in red morocco box. For members of the Plumet family active in the Paris trade at this time see The James A. de Rothschild bequest at Waddesdon Manor ... printed books and bookbindings (2013), vol. 1, pp. 151-52.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Maurice Burrus, who purchased it at the Librairie Lardanchet, Lyon, in 1935 (viz. the Christie's Paris sale catalogue, 15 Dec. 2015, lot 174).
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