The temple of the muses; . or, the principal histories of fabulous antiquity, represented in sixty sculptures; designed and ingraved by Bernard Picart Le Romain, and other celebrated masters. With explications and remarks, which discover the true meaning of the several fables, and their foundations in history.
Antoine de La Barre de Beaumarchais (d.1757)
Category
Books
Date
1733
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3149924
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],XXIV,153,[3]p., plates . ill.. . 12mo.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century mantle Harpur armorial bookplate, with italtic inscription: "Sr. Henry Harpur Bart" [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet, (1708-1748)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled leather binding; spine gilt decorated and (missing) spine label.
Makers and roles
Antoine de La Barre de Beaumarchais (d.1757) Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733)