Accession number
PML 198748
Creator
Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, author.
Published
[Paris] : De l'imprimerie ordinaire de l'Academie, MDCCXLVIII [1748]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes
Published anonymously. By Anne Claude Philippe, comte de Caylus. See Barbier, Cioranescu.
The imprint is fictitious. See Weller.
Signatures: a⁴ A-V⁸.
Leaf a4 incorrectly printed "av."
Illustrated with 9 full-page engravings, unsigned; one ("Le colporteur") used as frontispiece and another (facing p. 156) designed as an engraved title page; the engraving "La Male Bosse", facing page 188, is attributed to Charles Nicolas Cochin.
Title in red and black with engraved armorial device ("Communauté des Libraires Imprimeurs de Paris 1748. Colporteur"); woodcut tail-pieces and initials.
The holdings of the Pierpont Morgan Library include a counterproof executed in red chalk of the original preparatory drawing by Charles Nicolas Cochin for the engraved illustration facing page 188 of this volume, which appears with the caption title "La Male Bosse" (The Humpback). See: 1986.29:1.
The imprint is fictitious. See Weller.
Signatures: a⁴ A-V⁸.
Leaf a4 incorrectly printed "av."
Illustrated with 9 full-page engravings, unsigned; one ("Le colporteur") used as frontispiece and another (facing p. 156) designed as an engraved title page; the engraving "La Male Bosse", facing page 188, is attributed to Charles Nicolas Cochin.
Title in red and black with engraved armorial device ("Communauté des Libraires Imprimeurs de Paris 1748. Colporteur"); woodcut tail-pieces and initials.
The holdings of the Pierpont Morgan Library include a counterproof executed in red chalk of the original preparatory drawing by Charles Nicolas Cochin for the engraved illustration facing page 188 of this volume, which appears with the caption title "La Male Bosse" (The Humpback). See: 1986.29:1.
Description
viij, 319, [1] pages (the last page blank), [10] leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Armorial binding of the Prince d'Essling; bookplate of Antoine Mouradian.
Binding
Dark purple morocco tooled in gilt by Lortic fils; with the arms of the Prince d'Essling in the center of uper and lower boards, and the bookplate of Antoine Mouradian.
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