Accession number
PML 197943-47
Creator
Gérard, Philippe Louis, 1737-1813.
Published
A Paris : Chez Moutard, libraire de Madame La Dauphine, rue du Hurepoix, a Saint Ambroise, 1774-1778.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Five volume set consists the first edition of Gérard's 1774 novel in 3 volumes and his 2 volume continuation of that work published in 1778.
"Seconde partie"--title pages of volumes 4 and 5.
Volumes 4 and 5 have imprint: Chez Moutard, imprimeur-libraire de La Reine, de Madame, & de Madame le Comtesse d'Artois, rue des Mathurins, a Hôtel de Cluny.
With an "Explication des figures" included at the head of each volume.
Volume 1: xii, 551 pages, (4 leaves of plates); volume 2: 480 pages, (3 leaves of plates, numbered v-vii); volume 3: 530 pages, (3 leaves of plates, numbered viii-x); volume 4: x, 491 pages, (2 leaves of plates, numbered xi-xii); volume 5: 509 pages, (2 leaves of plates, numbered xiii-xiv).
Illustrated with 14 numbered full-page etchings, including 10 plates in volumes 1-4 by Le Villain after Liot, and 4 in volumes 4-5 engraved by Dambrun and Louis Le Grand after Monnet.
Volumes 4 and 5 published in 1778 as a continuation of Gérard's original novel in 3 volumes, the first edition of which was issued by Moutard in 1774.
Errata: p. [XII], v. 4; p. [510], v. 5.
"Seconde partie"--title pages of volumes 4 and 5.
Volumes 4 and 5 have imprint: Chez Moutard, imprimeur-libraire de La Reine, de Madame, & de Madame le Comtesse d'Artois, rue des Mathurins, a Hôtel de Cluny.
With an "Explication des figures" included at the head of each volume.
Volume 1: xii, 551 pages, (4 leaves of plates); volume 2: 480 pages, (3 leaves of plates, numbered v-vii); volume 3: 530 pages, (3 leaves of plates, numbered viii-x); volume 4: x, 491 pages, (2 leaves of plates, numbered xi-xii); volume 5: 509 pages, (2 leaves of plates, numbered xiii-xiv).
Illustrated with 14 numbered full-page etchings, including 10 plates in volumes 1-4 by Le Villain after Liot, and 4 in volumes 4-5 engraved by Dambrun and Louis Le Grand after Monnet.
Volumes 4 and 5 published in 1778 as a continuation of Gérard's original novel in 3 volumes, the first edition of which was issued by Moutard in 1774.
Errata: p. [XII], v. 4; p. [510], v. 5.
Description
5 volumes (xii, 551; 480; 530; x, 491; 509 pages; 14 leaves of plates) : illustrations (etchings) ; 17 cm
Provenance
Printed label of M. Vrait, "notaire" on flyleaf of volume 2, apparently removed from the corresponding flyleaves of volumes 1 and 3, possibly the notary Louis Sébastien Vrait (1769-1839). Bookseller's stamp of A. Vrait on pastedown of volume. Purchased from Amanda Hall, Catalog 40, item 23, 2018.
Binding
Contemporary mottled calf.
Classification
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