Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan (1641–1707)
Document authorizing the apprenticeship of Marie-Anne de la Motte to a tailor
Convent of St. Joseph, Paris, 9 February 1689

Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719)
Letter to Charles-François des Montiers de Mérinville (1682–1746), bishop of Chartres, place unknown, 1 June 1717
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1993; MA 4801 (27) and (22)

Louis XVI, king of France (1754–1793)
Letter to George III, king of Great Britain (1738–1820), Versailles, 3 March 1782

Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, regent of France (1674–1723)
Letter to Claude Théophile de Béziade, marquis d’Avaray (1655–1745), Paris, 10 August 1719

Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1993; MA 4801 (20) and (30)

Written for Louis XIV (1638–1715)

Claude Charles Guyonnet, sieur de Vertron (1645–1715)
Hymne nouvelle a l’honneur de Saint Louis, ca. 1680
Manuscript on vellum
MA 23389

Bound for Louis-Philippe I, duc d’Orléans (1725–1785)
Nicolas-Denis Derome (1731–1790), binder
Green morocco, with individual gilt tooling, on: Tarif des droits d’aides et autres y jointes, 1771
MA 23394

Remboîtage binding for Charles-Philippe, comte d’Artois (1757–1836)
Nicolas-Denis Derome (1731–1790), original binder
Red morocco, with individual gilt tooling and later armorial, on: Collection of Verse, 1821
MA 23404

Written and bound for Françoise-Marie de Bourbon (1677–1749)
Phillipe Charles Gallonde (1710–1787)
Prières à Sainte Geneviève, 1743
Manuscript on paper
MA 23396

Dedicated and bound for Louis XIV (1638–1715)
Red morocco, with gilt tooling and motto, on: Paul Hay du Chastelet (1620?–1682?)
Observations sur le traité de la politique de France, ca. 1669
Manuscript on paper
MA 23401

Bound for Queen Marie-Thérèse (1638–1683)
Red morocco, with semis gilt tooling and armorial, on: Office de la semaine sainte, 1659
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan by 1906; PML 1884

Bound for Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719)
Augustin Du Seuil (1673–1746), binder
Red morocco, with gilt armorial, on: Guillaume Dardenne (act. 1737)
Description du plan en relief de l’Abbaye de la Trappe, 1708; PML 198439

Perhaps Pierre-Paul Dubuisson (act. 1746–62), binder
Dark red morocco, with gilt dentelle and vase-of-flowers motif, on: Heures nouvelles, 1759
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1995; PML 125711

Eloi Levasseur (act. 1636–1700), binder
Red morocco, with gilt armorial, on: Guy Tachard (1651–1712) Voyage de Siam, 1686
PML 198286

Bound for Queen Marie Leszczyńska (1703–1768)
Jacques-Antoine Derome (1696–1760), binder
Mosaic binding in cream, black, and red morocco, with individual gilt tooling, on: Le psautier de David, 1725
PML 198290

Bound for an unidentified marquis
Perhaps Louis Douceur (d. 1769), binder
Red morocco, with individual gilt tooling and painted armorial, on: Pierre-Annet de Pérouse (1699–1763)
Extrait de l’histoire généalogique de la maison de Beaumont, 1757
PML 198348

Bound for Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset (1708–1776)
Nicolas-Denis Derome (1731–1790), binder
Cut binding in cream and black morocco, with individual gilt tooling, and gold, silver, and red foil under mica, on: Almanach royal, année M. DCC. LXV, 1765
PML 198429