Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection

Red morocco, with gilt dentelle, in the style of Antoine-Michel Padeloup (1685–1758), on: Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, 1718
PML 198330

Bound for Marie-Antoinette (1755–1793)
Red morocco, with gilt tooling “à la Montgolfière” and monogram, on: Barthélemy Imbert (1747–1790)
Lecture du matin and Lecture du soir, 1782
PML 198378–79

Red morocco, with gilt tooling and armorial, on: Marc-Antoine de Noé (1724–1802)
Discours prononcé dans l’église métropolitain d’Auch, 1781
PML 198393

Bound for Madame Adélaïde (1732–1800)
Pierre-Paul Dubuisson (act. 1746–62), binder
Red morocco, with gilt plaque border, and painted armorial under mica, on: Almanach royal, 1757
PML 198427

Bound for Queen Marie Leszczyńska (1703–1768)
Red morocco, with gilt dentelle and armorial, on: Jean Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan (1709–1784)
Poésies sacrées et philosophiques, tirées des livres saints, 1763
PML 198437

Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695)
Fables choisies mises en vers, 4 vols.
Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant, and Durand, 1755–59
PML 198445–48 (PML 198447 on view)

François Boucher (1703–1770)
Rodogune (Act V, Scene IV), ca. 1758–59
Black and white chalk on blue-gray paper
Purchased in 1927; III, 104a

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764), engraver, after François Boucher (1703–1770)
Proof impression of frontispiece for Rodogune, ca. 1758–59
Etching
Gift of Walter and Nesta Spink in honor of Charles Ryskamp; 2000.58