LE MUET, PIERRE. Maniere de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes...Reveuë, augmentée & enrichie en cette Edition... Paris: chez François Jollain 1681. 2 parts in one vol., folio, 392 x 268mm. (5 7/16 x 10 1/2in.), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, speckled edges, headcaps and corners worn away, headbands renewed, joints and extremities rubbed, marginal dampstain to 10 leaves. Two engraved titles, part 1 with letterpress title and 5 leaves of letterpress preliminary text (dedication and introduction), 75 engraved pages of text and illustration on 38 leaves, part 2 with 31 plates engraved by Jean Marot, of which 22 double-page including 10 folding. | Christie's

Lot 42

LE MUET, PIERRE. Maniere de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes...Reveuë, augmentée & enrichie en cette Edition... Paris: chez François Jollain 1681. 2 parts in one vol., folio, 392 x 268mm. (5 7/16 x 10 1/2in.), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, speckled edges, headcaps and corners worn away, headbands renewed, joints and extremities rubbed, marginal dampstain to 10 leaves. Two engraved titles, part 1 with letterpress title and 5 leaves of letterpress preliminary text (dedication and introduction), 75 engraved pages of text and illustration on 38 leaves, part 2 with 31 plates engraved by Jean Marot, of which 22 double-page including 10 folding.

Details

LE MUET, PIERRE. Maniere de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes...Reveuë, augmentée & enrichie en cette Edition... Paris: chez François Jollain 1681. 2 parts in one vol., folio, 392 x 268mm. (5 7/16 x 10 1/2in.), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, speckled edges, headcaps and corners worn away, headbands renewed, joints and extremities rubbed, marginal dampstain to 10 leaves. Two engraved titles, part 1 with letterpress title and 5 leaves of letterpress preliminary text (dedication and introduction), 75 engraved pages of text and illustration on 38 leaves, part 2 with 31 plates engraved by Jean Marot, of which 22 double-page including 10 folding.
Fowler 176-177 (first and second editions).

Provenance

Eighteenth-century annotations on recto of front flyleaf, ownership inscription "Korm: Bibl:" on the verso.