Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases et autres ornemens tels qu'ils se voyent à present dans le Château et Parc de Versailles, . gravé d'apres les originaux par Simon Thomassin, graveur du Roy. Ce livre contient deux cents vingt planches avec un catalogue ...
Simon Philippe Thomassin (Paris 1654 - Paris 1733)
Category
Books
Date
1694
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3142057
Summary
Bibliographic description
23,[1],218 leaves of plates,[4]p. : ill., port. ; 8vo. Running number: 1337. Provenance: Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript inscriptions on second front endleaf by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys: [1] "M." [i.e. catalogue code] continued "218. figures."; [2] "ιˡ." [i.e. manuscript code: iotaˡ = Greek number 10ˡ]. Manuscript notes on second front endleaf: [1] in eighteenth-century hand: "T.y"(?); [2] nineteenth-century(?) numbers in pencil, erased: "10 8". Binding: late seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf over boards. Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Five raised bands; gilt tooled spine with gilt title on leather label. Endbands. Five supports laced in; marbled pastedown and endleaves at both ends. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Simon Philippe Thomassin (Paris 1654 - Paris 1733)