Le temple de la felicité. Où se voient diuers tableaux qui representent tout ce qui a pouuoir de rendre l'homme content & heureux en cette vie. Par Messire Charles Vialar, Euesque d'Auranches, & Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils. Seconde edition. Reueuë, corrigée, & augmentée par l'autheur.
Charles Vialart (d.1644)
Category
Books
Date
1644
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3217183
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 567, [11] p. : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 7256. Water and mould-staining throughout, some pages stuck together. Provenance: large anonymous armorial bookplate on verso of title page: Azure, a chevron Or (tincture added by hand in ink) between three acorns slipped and leaved, barred helm with crest of a child's head (crossed-through in ink) and mantling; at foot of arms is written in manuscript "Baussan" [i.e. François de Baussan, seigneur de Richegrou (1644-1719)]. Manuscript seventeenth-century[?] shelfmark on verso of additional engraved title page: "M 37 B" (crossed-through). Manuscript geometric shapes and shading on front pastedown (part of an old architectural plan?). Binding: seventeenth-century full calf (rubbed and worn, water-damaged); sewn onto five cords; double gilt fillet border; spine partially missing; gold-tooled spine, with gilt stamps within fillet panels; gilt title on tan goatskin label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Charles Vialart (d.1644), author Philippe de Champaigne (Brussels 1602 - Paris 1674), photographer Charles David (c.1600 - c.1636), engraver (printmaker)