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LACHAU, Geraud (Abbé de) & Abbé Gaspard Michel, called LEBLOND. Description des principales pièrres gravées du cabinet de... le Duc d'Orleans. Paris: for Lachau & Leblond, by Prault (vol.I) and [Pierre-François Didot] (vol.II), 1780-1784.
2 volumes, 2° (323 x 197mm). Engraved allegorical portrait frontispiece and a headpiece after Charles Nicolas Cochin the Younger, 179 plates of cameos and intaglios, one headpiece and 56 tailpieces, all designed by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (except one tailpiece by Mme. E. de Sabran), all engraved by Saint-Aubin. Contemporary green morocco gilt, covers with fine dentelle border composed from various small tools, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in two, with a repeat design of a bird (at centre) within stylised foliage, dots and flower sprays, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, DEROME LE JEUNE'S BINDER'S TICKET, dated 1785, on verso of front endleaf of vol.I (spines very slightly faded and rubbed), modern cloth boxes. Provenance: Admiral Sir Augustus William Clifford (1788-1877, Black Rod, natural son of Lady Elizabeth Foster and the 6th Duke of Devonshire; armorial bookplate) -- Edward Clive Bigham, 3rd Viscount Mersey (inscriptions, including note of purchase from Sharp in 1932 for £12/10/0).
A FINE LARGE COPY, on Papier d'hollande in a magnificent binding. Unfortunately, although the spine decoration does appear to be by Derome, the very fine dentelle borders on the covers are not. While they are composed from a number of quite distinctive tools, the shop has not been identified: the palmette oval and the relative broadness of some of the tendrils suggest British (?London) work, similar to that of Hering and John Wright. Cohen-de Ricci 542. (2)
2 volumes, 2° (323 x 197mm). Engraved allegorical portrait frontispiece and a headpiece after Charles Nicolas Cochin the Younger, 179 plates of cameos and intaglios, one headpiece and 56 tailpieces, all designed by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (except one tailpiece by Mme. E. de Sabran), all engraved by Saint-Aubin. Contemporary green morocco gilt, covers with fine dentelle border composed from various small tools, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in two, with a repeat design of a bird (at centre) within stylised foliage, dots and flower sprays, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, DEROME LE JEUNE'S BINDER'S TICKET, dated 1785, on verso of front endleaf of vol.I (spines very slightly faded and rubbed), modern cloth boxes. Provenance: Admiral Sir Augustus William Clifford (1788-1877, Black Rod, natural son of Lady Elizabeth Foster and the 6th Duke of Devonshire; armorial bookplate) -- Edward Clive Bigham, 3rd Viscount Mersey (inscriptions, including note of purchase from Sharp in 1932 for £12/10/0).
A FINE LARGE COPY, on Papier d'hollande in a magnificent binding. Unfortunately, although the spine decoration does appear to be by Derome, the very fine dentelle borders on the covers are not. While they are composed from a number of quite distinctive tools, the shop has not been identified: the palmette oval and the relative broadness of some of the tendrils suggest British (?London) work, similar to that of Hering and John Wright. Cohen-de Ricci 542. (2)
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