Accession number
PML 196729
Creator
La Motte, M. de (Antoine Houdar), 1672-1731.
Published
À Paris : Chez Gregoire Dupuis, 1711.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2017.
Notes
Engraved frontispiece plate and head-piece (both unsigned) in volume 1; decorative woodcut capitals, and head- and tailpieces throughout.
According to Populus, the frontispiece plate was etched by Pierre Rochefort after Claude Gillot. Cf. Bernard Populus, L'Oeuvre gravé de Claude Gillot, Paris, 1930, no. 484, "La Poésie lyrique accompagnée de son génie et de la Renommée".
Signatures; A-S⁸ T⁶ (A1, E6, Q2, R2, T6 versos blank) ; A-T⁸ V⁶ (A1, D8, M6, P2, R6 versos blank).
Vol. 1: Liij signed 'Lii'; p. 80, 250-251 numbered 90, 150-151, respectively. Vol. 2: [B5] signed 'Biiij'; p. 305 numbered 530.
"Discours sur la poésie en général, & sur l'ode en particulier"--Volume 1, page [15]-75.
"Fautes à corriger"--Volume 1, page [299]; volume 2, page [314].
Publisher's ads: Catalogue ..., [3] p. at end of vol. 2.
According to Populus, the frontispiece plate was etched by Pierre Rochefort after Claude Gillot. Cf. Bernard Populus, L'Oeuvre gravé de Claude Gillot, Paris, 1930, no. 484, "La Poésie lyrique accompagnée de son génie et de la Renommée".
Signatures; A-S⁸ T⁶ (A1, E6, Q2, R2, T6 versos blank) ; A-T⁸ V⁶ (A1, D8, M6, P2, R6 versos blank).
Vol. 1: Liij signed 'Lii'; p. 80, 250-251 numbered 90, 150-151, respectively. Vol. 2: [B5] signed 'Biiij'; p. 305 numbered 530.
"Discours sur la poésie en général, & sur l'ode en particulier"--Volume 1, page [15]-75.
"Fautes à corriger"--Volume 1, page [299]; volume 2, page [314].
Publisher's ads: Catalogue ..., [3] p. at end of vol. 2.
Description
2 volumes in 1 (293, [7] pages, [1] leaf of plates; 530 [i.e. 305], [11] pages) : illustration (etching) ; 18 cm (8vo)
Binding
Full calf.
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