Accession number:
PML 1783-84
Published:
À Paris : Chez H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, rue S. Jacques : Laurent Durand, rue du Foin : La veuve J.B.T. Le Gras, au Palais, MDCCLVII [1757]
Credit:
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Description:
2 volumes : illustrations (engravings), coats of arms ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Added t.p., engr.: Armorial alphalbetique des principales maisons et familles du roiaume et particulierement de celles de l'Isle de France ... Par P.P. Dubuisson. Signed engraving.
"Avec approbation & privilege du roi."
Volume 1: xvi, 12-215, [1] pages, 12-215 pages of plates; volume 2: 212, [4] pages, 2-169 pages of plates.
Letterpress pages interleaved with corresponding plates that bear the same page number.
Errata at end of volume 1.
Index at end of volume 2.
Binding:
Contemporary French red morocco, gilt tooled with a large floral vase tool on covers, all edges gilt; attributed to Pierre-Paul Dubuisson (see also PML 125711). The border panel stamp used on these covers is identified as one used by Dubuisson in the later 1750s, see Barber, Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor: Printed Books and Bindings, vol. II, p. 326 (PS F) and flower vase stamp (BV 15).
Provenance:
Toovey Collection.
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