Accession number:
PML 15579-82
Published:
A Paris : Chez Desaint & Saillant ... : [Chez] Durand ..., 1755-1759.
Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 50 cm (fol.)
Credit:
Gift of F. Harvey.
Notes:
Illustrations: 276 full-page engravings, including front., after J.B. Oudry. C.N. Cochin the younger redesigned the original sketches made by Oudry in 1729-1734, etched many plates and directed the work of 42 engravers. The first engraving for "Le singe et le léopard," v. 3, p. 113, has the banner without "Le Léopard." Woodcut title vignette and head- and tailpieces by Le Sueur and Papillon after Bachelier.
Without portrait of Oudry found in some copies.
Dedication signed by the editor: de Montenault. Privilege granted to Jean-Louis Regnard de Montenault, 1759.
At foot of t.p.: De l'imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert.
Vol. 4, p. 187: Toutes les Estampes ... sont imprimées ... par P. Thevenard ... & par J.B. Dutertre ...
Binding:
18th century French red morocco, with arms of George Granville Leveson-Gower, duke of Sutherland.
Provenance:
Bookplate: The Marquis of Stafford (Granville Leveson-Gower)
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