Les chats.
Moncrif, M. de, 1687-1770
Category
Books
Date
1727
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3032369
Summary
Bibliographic description
204, [16] p., plates :. ill.;. 8vo. Accession no. 5504. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: With the arms and manuscript inscription of titlepage verso "Pour son altesse serissime Mademoiselle du Main [i.e. Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, called Mademoiselle du Maine (third and only surviving daughter, b. 1707, of Louis-Auguste, duc du Maine, son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan)]. Manuscript signature of J.-B. Loyer on titlepage; book label of C. Nodier, sale 1844, lot 1042; Lignerolles (sale 1894, lot 2004), bought by Morgand et Fatou (stock no. 15085) for 630 francs and sold to Baron Ferdinand for 750 francs; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.21. Binding: eighteenth-century French red morocco, arms of Mademoiselle du Mainem fleurs-de-lis at centre and corner of five spine panels, lettered directly with title; blue silk marker, red and white headbands, gilt edges, fine-combed marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
Moncrif, M. de, 1687-1770 Quillau, Gabriel-François, -1752, publisher