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Discourse on Painting and Architecture, dedicated to Madame de Pompadour, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen. Paris: Prault père, 1758. 8vo (21.4 x 13.4 cm), viii-75-[4] pp., red half-morocco, spine with five raised bands, title and date in gold, crowned ironwork with panels [Lemarbelev]. A fine copy enriched with nine copper engravings inserted into the volume by N. Since, after PP. A. Robert, Cochin after himself, De Longueil after Ch. Eisen (1763) and others. Elegant binding signed by Lemarbelev. Minor marginal defects; one leaf bearing the bookbinder’s signature is loose.
Illustrated offprint.
No copies held by the CCFr; the BnF possesses only the edition without the engravings (3 copies).
Enriched with nine black etchings, interleaved within the volume, by Depuis after PP. A. Robert, Cochin after himself, De Longueil after Eisen (1763) and others.
With an old albumen print of the large portrait of Madame de Pompadour by Boucher (1756) in a large gilt frame bearing her coat of arms, bound as the frontispiece of the volume.
Attractive binding signed by Lemarbelev.
Minor marginal defects; one leaf bearing the bookbinder’s signature is loose.
Cohen-Ricci, 338.