Divers desseins

Description

66 plates hand numbered 1 to 67, folio 44 numbered on recto 44 and 45 on verso, comprising 73 etched designs for furniture and furnishings.

French title taken from spine.

Collation: forty-four prints are imposed in pairs on whole sheets of paper, gathered in quires, and bound in on their own paper; one print (cancellans [g]4) mounted by binder on the stub of the cancel­landum; eighteen prints mounted by binder in two quires of album leaves placed at the end ([i] and [k]); ten prints (on nine individual leaves, here designated π1–π2,1X1–7X1) interpolated by binder according to their subject: [a]8 [b]6 [c]6 [d]4 (+π2 after [d]2; Χ1, 2X1, 3X1 after [d]3) [e]6 [f]6 (+4X1, 5X1, 6X1 after [f]6) [g]4 (–[g]4, cancelled and7X1 substituted) [h]6 [i]6 [k]6. Taken from Robin Halwas catalogue description, 2017.

Numerous watermarks: a crescent above a banner lettered J Perret on [a]1, [a]3, [a]4, [a]7, [b]4, [b]5, [b]6, [c]2, [c]3, [c]6, [d]2, [d]4, [e]1, [e]3, [e]5, [f]1, [f]4, [f]5, [g]1, [g]3, [h]1, [h]4, [h]5 (all whole sheets except [g]1); also fragment of anchor? ([i]1 and [i]5), bunch of grapes (Χ1, binder’s guard), fragment of armo­rial (3X1), fragment of armorial with three fleur-de-lis and crown with shell border (4X1, album leaf), fragment of same armorial? (5X1, album leaf), post horn (6X1, album leaf).

Indexed in: Simon Jervis, Printed furniture designs before 1650 (1974).

Indexed in: Robin Halwas, The Macclesfield Album of Androuet Du Cerceau's furniture designs, catalogue description, 2017.

Indexed in: Désiré Guilmard, Les maîtres ornemanistes, dessinateurs, peintres, architectes, sculpteurs et graveurs (Paris 1880–1881)

Indexed in: Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek, Berlin

Features

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection Additional N001: contemporary French full calf over pasteboards, gold and blind tooled on covers, spine divided into seven compartments by six raised bands with gold tooled title Diver Dess [Divers Desseins] and small flower decorations.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection Additional N001: acquired by Leeds University Library in 2023 as a supplement to the Bedford Collection. Nineteenth-century armorial of Earls of Macclesfield on front pastedown: South Library Press mark 179 J 15 Entd in catalogue 1860 [i.e. the early 18th century Library of Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire]. Blindstamp armorial of Earls of Macclesfield on first three leaves. MS. annotations on front flyleaf in ink: 5 - [ i.e. early price?], also - 5- o in pencil; and vi. 3. 4 in later hand in ink and 179 - i - 15 [both shelfmarks?],in pencil. Pencil inscriptions, annotations and sketches on plates 11, 22, 23, 24, 50, 51 recto. Three libraries assembled during 18th century by the Earls of Macclesfield amounting to more than 30,000 volumes were sold by Sotheby's for the 9th Earl of Macclesfield from 2004 and this item was lot 646 in Part Three of this Sotheby's sale, London on 4 November 2004.

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