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
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237230
Summary
Bibliographic description
xlij, 358, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates :. ill. ;. 4to. Accession no. 4623. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.41. Binding: mid eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt; a double pomegranate roll border encloses a floral dentelle with a large butterfly tool; olive lettering-piece and gilt spine; green and white headbands; green silk marker; gilt edges; leaf-marbled endleaves. Attributed to Louis Douceur on the evidence of the butterfly tool, double pomegranate roll and floral roll at foot of spine.
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)