Books and Coins [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.97
Author: 
Huyot, Jules Jean Marie Joseph, b. 1841, engraver.
Published: 
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 35 x 204 mm
Credit: 
Purchased in 2000.
Notes: 

Surface of the block has been inked and prepared with white.
Engraved block after Doré, with a design for an illustration for Gargantua et Pantagruel, created for Doré's 1873 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : Garnier Frères, 1873, v. 2, p. 148).
Signed within the block: G Doré; Huyot.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.177.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "689".

Summary: 

Engraved design shows a stack of books with an open book in the foreground with a pile of coins in front.

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