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LOUIS XV -- Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France et de Navarre, dans l'Eglise de Reims, Le Dimanche xxv Octobre MDCCXXII. [Paris: 1723]
Very large 2° (625 x 465 mm). ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT: title, 9 double-page plates, 32 leaves of text with decorative and pictorial borders, 30 costume plates, one double-page table of contents, single-page table of artists, by Audran, Beauvais, Cochin, Dupuis, Tardieu, Edelinck, Drevet, Haussard, Petit, d'Ulin, and other artists.
ONE OF LESS THAN TWENTY KNOWN PRESENTATION BINDINGS SPECIALLY DESIGNED AND EXECUTED FOR THE EDITION BY ANTOINE-MICHEL PADELOUP LE JEUNE, signed with the binder's engraved ticket added to the list of collaborating artists. Original gold-blocked dark-blue morocco over thick pasteboard, the sides decorated with a wide border of elaborate foliate and floral ornament composed from the repeated impression of four large plaques, large arms block of Louis XV in the centre, compartments of spine decorated with small tools including crowned royal cipher, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. (Minor restoration to spine, slight scratch to front cover.)
VERY FINE COPY OF A CELEBRATED FRENCH FÊTE-BOOK. Padeloup's binding design was evidently inspired by the decorative scheme of the engraved borders by d'Ulin, Perrot and Simonneau, and book and binding form an extraordinary stylistic unity. For a detailed study of these "reliures de série," see P. Culot, Sur quelques reliures d'époque à décor doré du Sacre de Louis XV (Cahiers de Mariemont I, 1970). Cohen-De Ricci col. 917; Vinet p. 57-58.
Very large 2° (625 x 465 mm). ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT: title, 9 double-page plates, 32 leaves of text with decorative and pictorial borders, 30 costume plates, one double-page table of contents, single-page table of artists, by Audran, Beauvais, Cochin, Dupuis, Tardieu, Edelinck, Drevet, Haussard, Petit, d'Ulin, and other artists.
ONE OF LESS THAN TWENTY KNOWN PRESENTATION BINDINGS SPECIALLY DESIGNED AND EXECUTED FOR THE EDITION BY ANTOINE-MICHEL PADELOUP LE JEUNE, signed with the binder's engraved ticket added to the list of collaborating artists. Original gold-blocked dark-blue morocco over thick pasteboard, the sides decorated with a wide border of elaborate foliate and floral ornament composed from the repeated impression of four large plaques, large arms block of Louis XV in the centre, compartments of spine decorated with small tools including crowned royal cipher, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. (Minor restoration to spine, slight scratch to front cover.)
VERY FINE COPY OF A CELEBRATED FRENCH FÊTE-BOOK. Padeloup's binding design was evidently inspired by the decorative scheme of the engraved borders by d'Ulin, Perrot and Simonneau, and book and binding form an extraordinary stylistic unity. For a detailed study of these "reliures de série," see P. Culot, Sur quelques reliures d'époque à décor doré du Sacre de Louis XV (Cahiers de Mariemont I, 1970). Cohen-De Ricci col. 917; Vinet p. 57-58.