DUCLOS, Charles Pinot (1704-1772)]. Acajou et Zirphile, Conte . "A Minutie." [Paris]: Prault 1744.
DUCLOS, Charles Pinot (1704-1772)]. Acajou et Zirphile, Conte . "A Minutie." [Paris]: Prault 1744. 4 o (307 x 232 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 9 plates after François Boucher by Pierre-Quentin Chedel, two vignettes designed and engraved by Charles-Nicholas-Cochin and a cul-de-lampe. (Some occasional marginal soiling or pale dampstaining.) Original marbled-paper wrappers, uncut; slipcase. Provenance : Desmond Flower (bookplate); acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1981. These celebrated plates were first used to illustrate the Comte de Tessin's Faunillane, ou l'Infante Jaune , published in 1741. As only a small number of copies were printed and Tessin was soon called away to Sweden, he made a gift of the plates to the publisher Prault. The latter was thus faced with the problem of finding a text to accompany the plates. He proposed the idea to three writers, Caylus, Voisenon and Duclos, and it was Duclos' text which was finally chosen. This is thus one of the earliest cases of a non-explanatory text being commissioned to accompany a set of plates. Cohen-De Ricci 331.
DUCLOS, Charles Pinot (1704-1772)]. Acajou et Zirphile, Conte . "A Minutie." [Paris]: Prault 1744.
DUCLOS, Charles Pinot (1704-1772)]. Acajou et Zirphile, Conte . "A Minutie." [Paris]: Prault 1744. 4 o (307 x 232 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 9 plates after François Boucher by Pierre-Quentin Chedel, two vignettes designed and engraved by Charles-Nicholas-Cochin and a cul-de-lampe. (Some occasional marginal soiling or pale dampstaining.) Original marbled-paper wrappers, uncut; slipcase. Provenance : Desmond Flower (bookplate); acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1981. These celebrated plates were first used to illustrate the Comte de Tessin's Faunillane, ou l'Infante Jaune , published in 1741. As only a small number of copies were printed and Tessin was soon called away to Sweden, he made a gift of the plates to the publisher Prault. The latter was thus faced with the problem of finding a text to accompany the plates. He proposed the idea to three writers, Caylus, Voisenon and Duclos, and it was Duclos' text which was finally chosen. This is thus one of the earliest cases of a non-explanatory text being commissioned to accompany a set of plates. Cohen-De Ricci 331.
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