Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantee ordonnez par Louis XIV roy de France et de Navarre.
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1664
Materials
Place of origin
Versailles
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3008594
Summary
Bibliographic description
92 leaves, plates;. fol. Accession no. 3685. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: second fly-leaf has inscription 'This Booke was given by Louis XIIII King of France unto Mary the Queene Mother of England, who at her death order'd it as a legacy unto her Secretary Sr Charles Wintour, & hee presented it to mee. Rebecca Worcester' and, in another hand, 'The said Rebecca by Will left it to the Honble Lord Charles Noel Somerset'. Barber provides a long gloss on this inscription. In 1896 it was sold at an anonymous sale at Sotheby's and bought by Quaritch for £169, passed from Rahir to Baron Ferdinand for £185; Waddesdon black notebook of additions to the 1897 catalogue under Bizincourt. Binding: French red morocco gilt, between 1664 and 1669; outer border of a solid single chevron and small circles roll, a swirling floral-type roll, a small inner chevron and single dots roll, then over the field a semis of fleur-de-lis and crowned L's alternating and in alternating lines. Within a central cartouche made up of a composite wreath are the collars of the Orders of the Saint Esprit and Saint Michel, a gilt circle with the royal fleurs-de-lis, crowned. The central ornamentation is not blocked but made up in gilt with separate tools. The wreath consists of a basic spray tool and a more solid swirling binding tool; the collar of the Saint Esprit; three tools, the Saint Michel collar, three tools; while the crown consists of five other tools. There are traces of two old tie holes which have been filled in and coverred with new tooling.The spine has eight panels and the title lettered directly on the second; the others have a large crowned Lin the centre and a semis of smaller ones and fleurs-de-lis in the background. Two-colour, faded headbands; edges gilt. Endleaves of stone marble on a blue ground with red, green, yellow and black.