Accession number
PML 151866
Published
A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale. M.DC.LXXIX.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Full page engravings, by S. Le Clerc, of the fountains in the Labyrinth (which represented Aesop's fables) with prose epitomes of the fables and descriptive text by Ch. Perrault, and metrical versions of the fables by Benserade.
Title vignette: arms of Louis XIV.
Library's copy: Explication and plan follow p. 34, also a blank leaf.
Title vignette: arms of Louis XIV.
Library's copy: Explication and plan follow p. 34, also a blank leaf.
Description
34, [6], 79, [4] p. illus., plan. 21 cm.
Provenance
"Ex Bibliotheca Velseriana." bookplate. From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Full white morocco, gilt, with brown and green onlays, by Julia Parker Wightman. In a brown oasis solander case.
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