Details
[QUÉRELLES, Emmanuel-Michel, le Chevalier de.] Héro et Léandre, poëme nouveau en trois chants, traduit du Grec, sur un manuscrit trouvé à Castro. Paris: Pierre Didot l'Ainé, 1801.
4° (330 x 245 mm). Large-paper copy on papier vélin, frontispiece and 8 colour-printed and hand-finished plates drawn and engraved by Debucourt. Later 19th-century binding by Chambolle-Duru (signed), blue crushed morocco, 2 outer gilt rolls and pointillé fillets framing rich dentelle of vases, flowers, birds and insects (including a tool of courting doves, perhaps referring to Debucourt's plate 'Les Colombes'), spine also richly gilt with similar tooling between raised bands, gilt-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Paul-Charles-Théodore Eudel (armorial bookplate, Olivier 242 fer 4).
Louis-Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832) was regarded in his prime as 'the supreme master of engravings printed in colour' (Ray). He was already an accomplished genre painter when in 1785 he perfected the process of printing in colour with five successive coppers. Cohen-de Ricci 833; Ray 88.
4° (330 x 245 mm). Large-paper copy on papier vélin, frontispiece and 8 colour-printed and hand-finished plates drawn and engraved by Debucourt. Later 19th-century binding by Chambolle-Duru (signed), blue crushed morocco, 2 outer gilt rolls and pointillé fillets framing rich dentelle of vases, flowers, birds and insects (including a tool of courting doves, perhaps referring to Debucourt's plate 'Les Colombes'), spine also richly gilt with similar tooling between raised bands, gilt-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Paul-Charles-Théodore Eudel (armorial bookplate, Olivier 242 fer 4).
Louis-Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832) was regarded in his prime as 'the supreme master of engravings printed in colour' (Ray). He was already an accomplished genre painter when in 1785 he perfected the process of printing in colour with five successive coppers. Cohen-de Ricci 833; Ray 88.