Premier - VIII cahier d'arabesques
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Premier - VIII cahier d'arabesques
Classmark: Bedford Collection A121
Creator(s): Boucher, Juste Nathan Francois (1736-1781)
Additional creator(s): Gast, Maria [?] (Former owner); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Jozon & Chauvet (Bookbinder)
Publisher: chez J. Chereau rue St Jacques aux 2 Piliers d'Or
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): [c.1780]
Language: French
Size and medium: 45 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723077
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019669349205181
Description
Plates are black and white. Each book [1st-8th] has 6 numbered plates, in book 5 these are folded, plates interleaved [when bound].
Chereau fils [imprint from book 5]. Chex Chereau rue des Mathurins [imprint from book 6].
Features
Leeds University Library copy at A121: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at A121: mid-19th century green quarter calf, green marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine, blue marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at A121: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Binder's label on front pastedown: Jozon & Chauvet, Papetiers, rue Neuve des Petits-Champs, no. 29. Former reference: ORO/46. MS inscription on front and rear flyleaf: Maria Gast[?] MS. annotations about this item on front flyleaf in bookseller's and John Bedford's hand.
Access and usage
Access
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