Accession number
PML 19597-19600
Creator
Le Sage, Alain René, 1668-1747.
Published
Paris : Imprimerie de Chaignieau aine, [1796-1801].
Notes
Extra-illustrated by the insertion of a set of Smirke's plates with legends and pub. by Longmans etc. May, 1809 engraved by J. Neagle (3), A. Raimbach (7), C. Armstrong (4), C. Warren (1), J. Parker (1), Anker Smith (4), J. Fittler (2), R. Golding (2). These etchings are also in duplicate and are proofs before letters.
Inserted also are 78 original drawings by an 18th century French artist.
Portrait and plates by Monnet in 2 states engraved by E. Bovinet, C.L. Lingee, Dambrun, J. Pelicier (dated 1796), J. Duplessi Bertaux and C.N. Malapeau.
Inserted also are 78 original drawings by an 18th century French artist.
Portrait and plates by Monnet in 2 states engraved by E. Bovinet, C.L. Lingee, Dambrun, J. Pelicier (dated 1796), J. Duplessi Bertaux and C.N. Malapeau.
Description
4 v.
Provenance
John Delaware Lewis (1828-1884), bookplate (in vol. 1 only); John Naylor, Lord Leighton (1813-1889), bookplate; Edward George Hibbert, book label, sale, Sotheby's, 9 April 1902, lot 479; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from E&J Bumpas, 1912.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt by Capé.
Classification
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