Accession number
PML 37301
Creator
Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684.
Published
Au Nord [Chateau de Versailles], 1760.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes
Printed on request of Madame de Pompadour in her presence, in her apartment at Versailles. Cf. Picat. Bibl. Cornélienne, 599.
Title page and text within ornamental borders.
One of 20(?) copies issued and printed (by a few workers from the "Imprimerie Royale"?) in the apartment of Madame de Pompadour, North side, at Versailles.
Title page and text within ornamental borders.
One of 20(?) copies issued and printed (by a few workers from the "Imprimerie Royale"?) in the apartment of Madame de Pompadour, North side, at Versailles.
Description
80 p. : front. ; 28 cm
Provenance
Unidentified French noble library stamps, abraded (title page); Librairie Damasène Morgand, Bulletin Mensuel, No. 26 (Nov. 1889), no. 17446; Robert Hoe, booklabel, his sale, Anderson, part IV, 11 Nov. 1912, lot 820; Cortlandt Bishop, hi sale, American Art/Anderson, 5 April 1938, lot 497; Roland L. Redmond.
Binding
French 18th-century red morocco, gilt, attributed to Padeloup.
Classification
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