Labyrinte de Versailles.. [Par C. Perrault]
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1679
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3256636
Summary
Bibliographic description
34, [6], 79, [5] : ill., plan. ; 8vo. Running number: 1340. Provenance: eighteenth-century inscriptions on front endleaf: [1] "A"; [2] "41 figg.". Binding: eighteenth-century red goatskin over boards with triple gilt border and triple gilt frame with gilt fleuron cornerpieces. Gilt pattern on board edges and turn ins. Five raised bands; gilt tooled spine with gilt title tooled directly on to spine. Marbled pastedown and made endleaves at both ends. Gilt leaf edges. Green fabric marker at pp. 24-5.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE) Isaac de Benserade (1613-1691) Charles Perrault (1628-1703) Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714, illus