Relation de la feste de Versailles. Du 18. Juillet mil six cens soixante-huit.
André Félibien,, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-1695)
Category
Books
Date
1679
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3139168
Summary
Bibliographic description
43, [1] p., V leaves of plates (5 double leaves) : ill. ; fol. Running number: 7309. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 5. Plates" [i.e. catalogue code and plate count written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: contemporary seventeenth-century Parisian presentation binding of gold-tooled red morocco, with the gilt arms of Louis XIV on both covers and a double and single gilt fillet outer border with small cornerpiece stamps. Board edges and turn-ins have a gilt roll pattern. Gold-tooled spine divided into seven panels by six raised bands: first and third-seventh panels with stamp and roll decoration, second panel with gilt title 'Feste de Versa de 1668' lettered directly onto spine. Gilt edges. Placard pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
André Félibien,, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-1695), author Jean Lepautre (Paris 1618 - Paris 1682), engraver (printmaker) François Chauveau (Paris 1613 - Paris 1676) , engraver (printmaker)