Accession number
PML 140588-89
Published
Paris : L. Curmer, 1841 [i.e. 1861]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Vol. 1 is a full-color chromolithographic facsimile of the Grandes heures d'Anne de Bretagne, illuminated ca. 1503-1508 by Jean Bourdichon, formerly attributed to Jean Poyet; the chromolithographs executed by Franz Kellerhoven and printed by Lemercier & Cie.
Vol. 1 has only spine title.
Originally appeared in 50 numbers between 1859 and 1861.
List of the book's 850 subscribers included at the end of v. 2.
The "procès-verbal" (v. 2, p. [13]) is dated 1861.
"Catalogue des plantes représentées dans les encadrements du Livre d'heures": 49 p. at end of v. 2.
"Index alphabétique des noms anciens et modernes des plantes mentionnés dans le catalogue, dressé par M. J. Decaisne": 7 p. at the end of v. 2.
Text printed in red and black and ruled in red.
"Paris Typographie Ernest Meyer 22, rue de Verneuil"--Half t.p. verso.
Collates as in Vicaire.
Library's copy housed in blue cloth clamshell boxes; boxes and volumes numbered with PML accession numbers that invert the actual order of the volumes as described by Ray and other sources, with v. 1 (PML 140588) being the translation and explanatory text and v. 2 (PML 140589) the chromolithographic facsimile of the Grandes heures d'Anne de Bretagne.
Vol. 1 has only spine title.
Originally appeared in 50 numbers between 1859 and 1861.
List of the book's 850 subscribers included at the end of v. 2.
The "procès-verbal" (v. 2, p. [13]) is dated 1861.
"Catalogue des plantes représentées dans les encadrements du Livre d'heures": 49 p. at end of v. 2.
"Index alphabétique des noms anciens et modernes des plantes mentionnés dans le catalogue, dressé par M. J. Decaisne": 7 p. at the end of v. 2.
Text printed in red and black and ruled in red.
"Paris Typographie Ernest Meyer 22, rue de Verneuil"--Half t.p. verso.
Collates as in Vicaire.
Library's copy housed in blue cloth clamshell boxes; boxes and volumes numbered with PML accession numbers that invert the actual order of the volumes as described by Ray and other sources, with v. 1 (PML 140588) being the translation and explanatory text and v. 2 (PML 140589) the chromolithographic facsimile of the Grandes heures d'Anne de Bretagne.
Description
2 v. : col. ill. (chromolithographs) ; 34 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Brown mosaic morocco by Petit.
Classification
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