LA BORDE, Jean Benjamin de (1734-1794). Choix de Chanson mises en musique. Paris: de Lormal, 1773. 4 volumes in two, 8° (210 x 148mm). Engraved throughout. Two portraits of the author (one by Masquelier after Denon of the author within a lyre), four titles, decorative dedication leaf and 100 plates by Moreau, Masquelier and Née after Moreau, Le Barbier, Le Bouteaux and Saint-Quentin. 19th-century red morocco, finely tooled in gilt, covers with wide elaborate border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, the others with overall tooling, gilt turn-ins, watered silk liners and doublures, g.e., by Chambolle-Duru (free-endpaper detached from first volume). Provenance : R.D. (bookplate). A FINE COPY. Moreau-le-jeune envolvment with this work is limited to the first volume (he quarelled with La Borde and withdrew from the project) where he engraved as well as designed the plates. The plates in the remaining volumes do not live up to the very high standards of the first but the whole is still a woderfully sumptuous production and volume I a masterpiece. Cohen/de Ricci 534; Ray 49. (2)
LA BORDE, Jean Benjamin de (1734-1794). Choix de Chanson mises en musique. Paris: de Lormal, 1773. 4 volumes in two, 8° (210 x 148mm). Engraved throughout. Two portraits of the author (one by Masquelier after Denon of the author within a lyre), four titles, decorative dedication leaf and 100 plates by Moreau, Masquelier and Née after Moreau, Le Barbier, Le Bouteaux and Saint-Quentin. 19th-century red morocco, finely tooled in gilt, covers with wide elaborate border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, the others with overall tooling, gilt turn-ins, watered silk liners and doublures, g.e., by Chambolle-Duru (free-endpaper detached from first volume). Provenance : R.D. (bookplate). A FINE COPY. Moreau-le-jeune envolvment with this work is limited to the first volume (he quarelled with La Borde and withdrew from the project) where he engraved as well as designed the plates. The plates in the remaining volumes do not live up to the very high standards of the first but the whole is still a woderfully sumptuous production and volume I a masterpiece. Cohen/de Ricci 534; Ray 49. (2)
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