Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres magnifiques ornemens de Versailles. Tels qu'ils se voyent à present dans le chateau & parc. Gravé d'apres les originaux par Simon Thomassin, graveur du Roy. Le tout en quatre langues. François, latin, italien & flaman.
Simon Philippe Thomassin (Paris 1654 - Paris 1733)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3005521
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 59, [5] p., [219] leaves of plates (some folded) : chiefly ill., plan ; 4to. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Manuscript former shelfmarks in pencil on front pastedown: "Q3" (crossed-out) and "P6". Manuscript former shelfmark in black ink on rear pastedown: "Q3". Binding: late seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto five cords; blind roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Simon Philippe Thomassin (Paris 1654 - Paris 1733), engraver (printmaker)