Les metamorphoses, ou L'asne d'or de L. Apulée philosophe platonicien.
Nicolas de La Coste (d.1667?)
Category
Books
Date
1648
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3059855
Summary
Bibliographic description
Nouuellement reueues, corrigées, & mises en meilleur ordre qu'aux precedentes impressions. Augmentees de deux tables des principales matieres, tant du corps du liure, que des Commentaires. Et enrichies de quantité de figures en taille-douce.. [16], 382, [2], 270, [40] p.; plates ;. 8vo. Former acc. no. 4682. Two nineteenth-century coded English prices. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.2. Binding: late-eighteenth-century French blue morocco gilt, flat spine gilt with red label and all-overfronds. Small thistle motif as cornerpieces; yellow silk headbands, edges gilt over marble, red silk marker, V-combed marbled endleaves. Ruled in red throughout.
Makers and roles
Nicolas de La Coste (d.1667?) Apuleius (c.125- after 170) Jean de Montlyard (fl.1590)