Recueil historique de la vie et des ouvrages des plus celebres architectes.
Jean-François Félibien des Avaux, (1658-1733)
Category
Books
Date
1696
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3258080
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 249, [19]p. ; 4to. Running number: 1383. Shelved and uniformly bound with Felibien's 'Conferences de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de sculpture pendant l'année' 1667. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Seventeenth-century catalogue code on front pastedown: "E[struck through and over] PyP [rule] e / [triple horizontal lines]". $zBinding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards; double blind ruled border and triple blind ruled frame with blind stamped tulip cornerpieces; gilt pattern on board edges; six raised bands, gilt-tooled spine with gilt title tooled directly onto spine; endbands; four supports laced in; pastedown and endleaf; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jean-François Félibien des Avaux, (1658-1733) Mariette, Denis Vermeulen, Cornelis