Fables nouvelles, dediées au roy. Par M. de La Motte, de l'Académie Françoise. Avec un discours sur la fable.
Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672-1731)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3220213
Summary
Bibliographic description
xlij, 358, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 7454. Water-staining at head of leaves throughout. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell a. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on six raised bands; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown sheepskin label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges. Comb and swirl marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672-1731) Gillot, Claude Charles Nicolas Cochin (1688-1754) Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733) Gérard Edelinck (Antwerp 1640 - Paris 1707) Charles Louis Simonneau the elder (Orléans 1645 - Paris 1728) Nicolas Henri Tardieu (1674-1749) Charles-Antoine Coypel (Paris 1694 - Paris 1752)