[Fables nouvelles].
Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672-1731)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237233
Summary
Bibliographic description
v., 72 plates:. ill.;. obl. 8vo. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: eighteenth-century purchase at unidentified sale (no. 67811; the four duplicate plates and frontispiece are listed as extra to the plates; manuscript notes of J. Joyant on lower endleaf, sale 1855) Waddesdon catalogue, p. 30. Binding: early nineteenth-century French red morocco, gilt spine, lettered "Fables/ Desope"; green silk marker, gilt edges, curl-marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672-1731)