Accession number:
PML 2742
Published:
A Paris: De l'imprimerie de Monsieur, 1789.
Description:
xxxv, [1], 243, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm (18mo)
Notes:
Plates engraved by Girardet, L.M. Halbou and De Longueil, after J.M. Moreau and J. Vernet.
First separately published edition.
On t.p.: "Prix, papier vélin d'Essone, 6 liv."
Verso of half title: se trouve à Paris, Chez P. Fr. Didot jeune ...
Signatures: a-c⁶ 1-20⁶ 21²
Plates do not have engraved captions found in later states.
Plate [4] dated 1788.
Author's presentation copy to Madame la baronne De Drucourt, 1790.
With 2 leaves of drawings. The 1st is a dedication leaf signed "Inv. et fait à la Plume sans aucun lavis par Crussaire 1790." The 2nd is after the text.
Signature of Eugène Paillet.
Bookplate: Franchetti.
Bdg.: red mor. with a "chiffre fleures" of Mme. la baronne de Drucourt; blue silk doublures.
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