Mémoires historiques sur Raoul de Coucy.. On y a joint le recueil de ses chansons en vieux langage, avec la traduction & l'ancienne musique.
Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (1734-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1781
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237266
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates :. ports. ;. 12mo. Accession no. 5465.1-2. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Antoine Paris d'Illens (sale Bibliotheca Parisiana, London, Edwards, 1791, lot 628); T. Allen (sale 1 June 1795, lot 223); manuscript notes of M. Woodhull on flyleaf: "Leigh's Auct. T: Allen Esq. 2 V £5:10s M. Woodhull June 2d 1795 ex: Bib: Paris No628. Collat. & complet." The work is also dated by Woodhull at end of text "July 30 1796" and July 31st 1796"; Mary Ingram; S.A. Severne (sale 11 Jan. 1886, lot 829. £97 to Quaritch); 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.73 (arms incorrectly attributed to Joly de Fleury). Binding: late eighteenth-century French red morocco; delicate dentelle borders with bird in corners, arms of Antoine d'Illens on all covers. Flat spine lettered directly on second and third panels and with sunflower tool. Blue silk markers, red, white and blue headbands, gilt edges, blue watered silk linings. Binding attributed to Derome.
Makers and roles
Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (1734-1794) Guy, de Coucy, -1203 Pierres, Philippe Denis, 1741-1808, publisher