Vignette on t.p.: Papillon sculp. 1 print : woodcut ; 3 x 3 cm. -- Tailpieces.
"Lettres diverses" (chiefly correspondence with Voltaire): p. 114-153.
"Ce volume est imprimé sur le papier d'écorce de tilleul"--P. opp. t.p. Issued also on rose-colored paper and on paper made from marshmallow.
Published by P.A. Léorier Delisle, who made the paper at the mill at Langlée, near Montargis; printed by Couret de Villeneuve, Orléans. Cf. article by Hiver de Beauvoir in Archives du bibliophile, III (1860), p. 119-121.
Chiefly verse.
Place of publication given as Montargis by Weller.
The 20 leaves of plates are samples of Léorier Delisle's experimental paper made from various plant materials: marshmallow, nettles, hops, moss, reeds, conferva (3 kinds), burdock, burdock-colt's foot, and thistles; quack-grass root; hazel wood and spindle wood; and bark of willow, spindle tree, oak, poplar, osier and elm.
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Œuvres du marquis de Villette.
Accession number:
PML 150581
Published:
A Londres [i.e. Langlée, France : P.A. Léorier Delisle], 1786.
Description:
[8], 156 p., [20] leaves of plates : samples ; 13 cm.
Credit:
Bequest; Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes:
Binding:
Original blue paper boards, niger leather folding case by J.P.W.
Provenance:
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
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