Labyrinte de Versailles.
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1679
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3103276
Summary
Bibliographic description
34, [1], 79, [4] p.:. ill., plan.. 8vo. Accession no. 4765. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: possibly Bibliotheca Hohendorfiana sale, The Hague, lot 471. Effaced pencil inscription of P. Wilson Junr. on free endpaper. 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.40. Binding: eighteenth-century Dutch red morocco gilt, covers with a central motif built up of drawer handle tools within a roll-produced panel. Round edges and on turn-ins a broader roll of foliage with a swan, gull, sparrow and sunflower, a starflower and a rose.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE) Isaac de Benserade (1613-1691) Charles Perrault (1628-1703) Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714, illus