Accession number
PML 150516
Published
Paris : De l'Imprimerie de Le Breton, Imprimeur, 1753.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Larcher stationer label.
Description
464 p.
Provenance
Du Boullon family, painted armorial (binding); Larcher (bookseller), engraved trade label for the shop “A la Teste noire,” 1756 (front endleaf 3 verso); Charles Cousin, booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso) with his motto: "C'est ma toquade" accompanied by La Fontaine's famous epitaph: "Jean s'en partir comme il était venu" and the monogram "JFT", his sale Paris, April 7-11, 1891; Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
18th-century French black and cream morocco, gold tooled, and pierced with sections of silver and red metallic foils; with central painted armorial of the De Boullon family. Pink silk pastedowns and endleaves. In a chemise and slip case by J.P.W.
Classification
Catalog link
Department