Cabinet des singularitez d'architecture, peinture, sculpture, et graveure. . Ou introduction a la connoissance des plus beaux arts, figurés sous les tableaux, les statuës, & les estampes. Dedié à M. Mansart ... Par Florent le Comte ...
Florent Le Comte (d.1712)
Category
Books
Date
1699
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3107447.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
vol. 1. ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 1240. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)], continued "NB in vol. 1.&2. the catalogues [underlined] &c are bound before the Cabinet des Tableaux &c. [title underlined] and the two last leaves of vol. 2 are transposed.". Price marked in pencil on front endleaf: "7-6". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled brown calf over boards (rubbed). Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Five raised bands; gilt-tooled spine with gilt title on brown goatskin label; gilt volume number tooled directly on to spine. Two colour endbands with front beads. Three supports laced in at slight angle; pastedown and endleaves at both ends. Red sprinkled edges. Green silk moveable marker (detached).
Makers and roles
Florent Le Comte (d.1712) Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733) , engraver (printmaker)