Accession number
PML 197729
Creator
Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean, 1595-1676.
Published
A Paris : Chez Augustin Courbé ... Henry Le Gras ... et Jacques Roger ..., 1657.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2017.
Notes
Signatures: [pi]² *⁴ **² ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ õ² A-3M⁴ (3M4 blank).
Library's copy lacking the final blank leaf (3M4).
Numbers 393-394 omitted in pagination.
Illustrations include an engraved equestrian frontispiece portrait of Louis XIV (Couvay, after Bourdon), to whom the book is dedicated, an engraved half title showing Clovis bowing before France and Religion personified (by Pitau, after Le Brun), 22 etched illustrations executed by François Chauveau, and 4 by Abraham Bosse (plates No. 12, 15, 23 and 24 after Chauveau and Bourdon), for a total of 26 illustrations, unsigned and decorated at head and foot with etched ornamental calligraphic ciphers containing the initials of potential patrons, probably contributed by the author's son, Armand Desmarets, a noted writing master, the 15 different designs printed from separate plates and repeated over the course of 52 impressions.
Woodcut title vignette, initials, head- and tailpieces, possibly after designs by Armand Desmarets and bearing a close resemblance to the etched ornaments decorating the head and foot of the 26 engraved illustrations.
Library's copy lacking the final blank leaf (3M4).
Numbers 393-394 omitted in pagination.
Illustrations include an engraved equestrian frontispiece portrait of Louis XIV (Couvay, after Bourdon), to whom the book is dedicated, an engraved half title showing Clovis bowing before France and Religion personified (by Pitau, after Le Brun), 22 etched illustrations executed by François Chauveau, and 4 by Abraham Bosse (plates No. 12, 15, 23 and 24 after Chauveau and Bourdon), for a total of 26 illustrations, unsigned and decorated at head and foot with etched ornamental calligraphic ciphers containing the initials of potential patrons, probably contributed by the author's son, Armand Desmarets, a noted writing master, the 15 different designs printed from separate plates and repeated over the course of 52 impressions.
Woodcut title vignette, initials, head- and tailpieces, possibly after designs by Armand Desmarets and bearing a close resemblance to the etched ornaments decorating the head and foot of the 26 engraved illustrations.
Description
[36], 464 [i.e. 462], [2] pages, [28] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm (4°)
Provenance
Bookplate of Émile Délicourt (etched and signed in the plate by Maurice Leloir); bookplate of Albert-Louis Natural (his sale Pierre Bergé, 7-8 December 2009, lot 39); Librairie Laurent Coulet catalogue 54.
Binding
French 19th century straight-grained gilt-tooled morocco.
Classification
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