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Premier - VIII cahier d'arabesques

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A121

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Type of record: Book

Title: Premier - VIII cahier d'arabesques

Level: Item

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.

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