Accession number:
PML 146877
Published:
[Geneva? : Chez Paul Barde?, 1785?]
Description:
1 v. (21 prints) : etchings ; 25 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Binder's title.
Proof impressions before letters of the illustrative plates designed and etched by Daniel Chodowiecki for a French translation of Richardson's Clarissa by Le Tourneur, published in Geneva by Paul Barde, 1785-1786.
The individual plates trimmed to various sizes and inlaid into larger leaves and bound with guard sheets.
Library's copy lacks plate 20 of the series of 21 etchings.
Binding:
Black morocco by Zaehnsdorf.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Pickford Waller by James Guthrie; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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