Explication Des Peintures Sculptures Et Gravures De Messieurs De L Academie Royale Dont L

by Paris Salon

$650 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Woodcut royal coat-of-arms to title & two woodcut head-pieces. 40 pp. 12mo 160 x 96 mm. , late 19th-cent. green morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt. Paris: J. T. Herissant, 1763. A scarce mid-18th century livret for the Paris Salon, from the library of museum curator comte L. Clément de Ris 1820-82 , with his dated ownership inscriptions “1864” to the first blank leaf and the title-page. These ephemeral publications were distributed at

• Binding: Leather

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