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Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois.

Accession number
PML 76099-100
Creator
Papillon, Jean-Michel, 1698-1776.
Published
A Paris : Chez Pierre Guillaume Simon, imprimeur du Parlement, rue de la Harpe, à l'Hercuie, M.DCC.LXVI [1766].
Credit line
Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979.
Notes
Dedicated to Marquis de Boyer de Bandol (vol. 1, leaves v-vii).
Portrait of Jean-Michel Papillon, reproduction of a woodcut by Nicholas Caron from a drawing by Jean-Baptiste Noël Gamot: frontispiece, volume 1.
Chiaroscuro woodcuts of St. Andrew bound in before p. 369 (vol. 1) and figure in toga shown in 4 individual color block prints and the final version bound in after p. 154 (vol. 2).
Morgan copy with Supplement bound with vol. 2.
Description
3 volumes in 2 (xxxii, 540 pages, 1 leaf of plates; xv, [1], 388, [4], 124 pages, 5 leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Part of printed document pasted in to front pastedown, vol. 1: "112. Monsieur Deu de Perthes, Directeur des Fermes Générales, A Amiens;" vol. 2 has same, but "469. Monsieur..."
Provenance
Leon Benoit, bookplates, "Ex Bibliotheca Leon Benoit" signed DG; Cousança Bisson, armorial bookplates, "Ex lib. Cousança Bisson"; Paul Mellon, given to the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979.
Binding
Contemporary quarter mottled calf with moddled paper sides.
Classification
Department