Accession number:
PML 17282.1
Published:
A Paris, : Chez Prault, pere ... : Chez Prault, fils ... : Chez Desaint & Saillant ..., 1752.
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description:
[2], xij, [2], 688 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
"A Paris, De l'imprimerie de Prault pere, 1752": p. [2] of third group.
Includes index.
Title vignette.
Written by C.J.F. Hénault with the supposed assistance of P.J. Boudot. Cf. Barbier.
In 1756 was published the "Supplément ... contenant les additions et corrections faites à cet ouvrage dans la 5e édition, 1756, pour servir à la 3e et à la 4e édition." Cf. BN.
Binding:
Dark green morocco, with red morocco inlays and gilt tooling, attributed to Louis Douceur, with arms of Madame de Pompadour.
Provenance:
With arms of Madame de Pompadour; on fly-leaves, "Blantyre" 1822 and his press-mark, J 12, with the armorial book-plate of Lord Blantyre.
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