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[POMPADOUR - BOUCHER] Office de la sainte Vierge pour tous les Jours de la Semaine. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1757.
2 volumes in-12 (84 x 155 mm), (4)-237 pp., (4)-198 pp. and 8 full-page ink drawings outside the text.
Contemporary midnight blue morocco, smooth spine decorated, triple gilt fillet on the covers, fleurons at the corners, gilt arms of the Marquise de Pompadour in the center, decorated inner edges and cuts, red morocco doubled covers gilt, gilt paper endpapers, gilt edges, gilt clasps (binding by Derome) Modern box in red morocco decorated, imitating an oblong in-4 volume (208 x 250 mm).
An exceptional copy with the arms of Madame de Pompadour, on large paper, beautifully bound by Derome in doubled morocco, and decorated with 8 original drawings by François Boucher, 6 of them signed.
A handwritten note of the time on the front of the second leaf indicates: "These two volumes are a present from Louis Quinze to the Marquise de Pompadour. This copy is the only one printed on large paper. The nine [actually eight] drawings it is decorated with are by the famous Boucher and are signed by him. The binding is by Derôme.
This Office de la Vierge, which was not put on the market, was executed by the royal printing house at the request and for the use of Madame de Pompadour, one of the greatest female bibliophiles in history. She had built up a library whose catalog, drawn up after her death by the bookseller Hérissant, included nearly 4,000 volumes. All genres were represented, from theology to history, including belles-lettres and theater.
Among them, this copy is one of the most sumptuous. It was given to her by her royal lover, who specially commissioned François Boucher, the marquise's favorite artist, to do 8 original drawings to illustrate it (and not 9 as mentioned in the inscription at the head of the book| the number 8 is confirmed by Hérissant in his catalog). Quentin-Bauchart (Les Femmes bibliophiles de France, II, pp.67-68), who devotes a long note to this copy, describes the first drawing of this volume as follows: "Pretty and ingenious drawing. It represents a tower with flowers, including lilies in the natural, clouds and a banner, where is written Turris eburnea (one of the names of the Litany of the Virgin), allusion to the arms and, perhaps also, to the whiteness of Madame de Pompadour. The binding is due to the master bookbinder and gilder Jacques-Antoine De Rome (or Derome) (1696-1760), who excelled in lace decoration, like his contemporary Antoine-Michel Padeloup.
One of the most splendid manifestations of the art of bookbinding in the 18th century.
PROVENANCE
Copy (n° 32 of the catalog) acquired at the sale of the marquise's library in 1765 by the duchess of Gramont, sister of the duke of Choiseul, for 53 livres, the highest bid of the sale| Maurice Loncle (Bibliothèque M. L., Paris, December 10 and 11, 1963).
REFERENCES
OHR, pl. 2399, iron no. 4.
2 volumes in-12 (84 x 155 mm), (4)-237 pp., (4)-198 pp. and 8 full-page ink drawings outside the text.
Contemporary midnight blue morocco, smooth spine decorated, triple gilt fillet on the covers, fleurons at the corners, gilt arms of the Marquise de Pompadour in the center, decorated inner edges and cuts, red morocco doubled covers gilt, gilt paper endpapers, gilt edges, gilt clasps (binding by Derome) Modern box in red morocco decorated, imitating an oblong in-4 volume (208 x 250 mm).
An exceptional copy with the arms of Madame de Pompadour, on large paper, beautifully bound by Derome in doubled morocco, and decorated with 8 original drawings by François Boucher, 6 of them signed.
A handwritten note of the time on the front of the second leaf indicates: "These two volumes are a present from Louis Quinze to the Marquise de Pompadour. This copy is the only one printed on large paper. The nine [actually eight] drawings it is decorated with are by the famous Boucher and are signed by him. The binding is by Derôme.
This Office de la Vierge, which was not put on the market, was executed by the royal printing house at the request and for the use of Madame de Pompadour, one of the greatest female bibliophiles in history. She had built up a library whose catalog, drawn up after her death by the bookseller Hérissant, included nearly 4,000 volumes. All genres were represented, from theology to history, including belles-lettres and theater.
Among them, this copy is one of the most sumptuous. It was given to her by her royal lover, who specially commissioned François Boucher, the marquise's favorite artist, to do 8 original drawings to illustrate it (and not 9 as mentioned in the inscription at the head of the book| the number 8 is confirmed by Hérissant in his catalog). Quentin-Bauchart (Les Femmes bibliophiles de France, II, pp.67-68), who devotes a long note to this copy, describes the first drawing of this volume as follows: "Pretty and ingenious drawing. It represents a tower with flowers, including lilies in the natural, clouds and a banner, where is written Turris eburnea (one of the names of the Litany of the Virgin), allusion to the arms and, perhaps also, to the whiteness of Madame de Pompadour. The binding is due to the master bookbinder and gilder Jacques-Antoine De Rome (or Derome) (1696-1760), who excelled in lace decoration, like his contemporary Antoine-Michel Padeloup.
One of the most splendid manifestations of the art of bookbinding in the 18th century.
PROVENANCE
Copy (n° 32 of the catalog) acquired at the sale of the marquise's library in 1765 by the duchess of Gramont, sister of the duke of Choiseul, for 53 livres, the highest bid of the sale| Maurice Loncle (Bibliothèque M. L., Paris, December 10 and 11, 1963).
REFERENCES
OHR, pl. 2399, iron no. 4.