Description
Lortic binding.- Piis (Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de) Chansons nouvelles...dediees a Monseigneur Comte d'Artois, half-title, engraved dedication with arms by Choffard, 12 fine engraved plates by Gaucher after Le Barbier, 21pp. engraved music, ink private ownership stamp to head of half-title, some staining or spotting, silk doublures and endpapers, wide richly gilt inner dentelles, fine blue crushed morocco by Lortic, covers richly gilt with various floral, bird, torch, and pierced heart tools, scallop shell corner-pieces, all within multiple filet and floral borders, spine in compartments and decorated with floral foliage tools, g.e., housed in a marbled board slip-case, [cf. Cohen - de Ricci p.802], large 12mo (binding 170 x 103mm.), Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, [1785].
Lot 115
Lortic binding.- Piis (Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de) Chansons nouvelles...dediees a Monseigneur Comte d'Artois, in a fine Lortic binding, Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1785.
Hammer Price: £800
Description
Lortic binding.- Piis (Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de) Chansons nouvelles...dediees a Monseigneur Comte d'Artois, half-title, engraved dedication with arms by Choffard, 12 fine engraved plates by Gaucher after Le Barbier, 21pp. engraved music, ink private ownership stamp to head of half-title, some staining or spotting, silk doublures and endpapers, wide richly gilt inner dentelles, fine blue crushed morocco by Lortic, covers richly gilt with various floral, bird, torch, and pierced heart tools, scallop shell corner-pieces, all within multiple filet and floral borders, spine in compartments and decorated with floral foliage tools, g.e., housed in a marbled board slip-case, [cf. Cohen - de Ricci p.802], large 12mo (binding 170 x 103mm.), Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, [1785].