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GRAVELOT (Hubert François). COCHIN (Charles Nicolas).
Iconology by Figures, or A Comprehensive Treatise on Allegories, Emblems, etc. Paris: Lattré, 1791.
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Iconology by Figures, or A Comprehensive Treatise on Allegories, Emblems, etc. Paris: Lattré, 1791.
4 volumes in-12. 19th-century navy blue morocco, spine with raised bands, title, author and volume number gilded, place of publication stamped at the bottom, richly decorated panels with small ironwork, and a double gilt border, covers edged with multiple fillets and decorated with a broad lace pattern of ironwork featuring bird motifs, all gilt, fawn morocco lining, double endpapers in fawn and marbled silk, gilt edges [Lortic] (a few minor flaws inside, including some browned pages, foxing, and water damage at the corner of the plate in Vol. 2, small missing section on p. 97 of Vol. 4).
A fine copy of the famous illustrated dictionary, intended for artists and art lovers, based on Cesare Ripa’s *Iconologia*, 1593. Begun by Hubert Gravelot, who died in 1773; the publisher then continued the work with Charles-Nicolas Cochin, who also died prematurely in 1790.
Complete, the illustrations comprise 208 black copperplate engravings: an allegorical portrait of Gravelot, an allegorical portrait of Cochin, 4 engraved titles and 202 plates containing 350 figures. This copy contains an additional plate to Cohen’s inventory (49 plates for 48 in vol. 3), and thus comprises a total of 209 plates. An exceptional copy in which all the plates are present in two states, one of which is a pre-print. A very fine copy bound in the finest style by Lortic, who has preserved generous margins (h 167 mm); the bookbinder’s label on the endpapers. Cohen-Ricci, 456, with some differences in the numbering of the plates.