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Iconologie par figures, ou, Traité complet des allégories, emblêmes &c. : ouvrage utile aux artistes aux amateurs, et pouvant servir à l'éducation des jeunes personnes / par M.M. Gravelot et Cochin ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection NC1135 .G738 1791 v.1-4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Allegories--Early works to 1800.
- Allegories.
- Emblems--Early works to 1800.
- Emblems.
- Genre:
- Emblem books -- France -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Manufacture:
- Paris : De l'imprimerie de Clousier.
- Other Title:
- Iconologie par figures
- Traité complet des allégories, emblêmes &c.
- Almanach iconologique.
- Fingerprint:
- e.il s.on e.n, ++++ (3) 1791 (Q) v.1
- x.ux a.a- deme potr (3) 1791 (Q) v.2
- s.it neme erla àede (3) 1791 (Q) v.3
- éss- e.st erut &cdo (3) 1791 (Q) v.4
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Le Pan ..., [1791]
- Contents:
- t. 1. Abondance [...] Douleur.
- t. 2. Eau. [...] Hymen.
- t. 3. Imagination [...] Ouie.
- t. 4. Paix [...] Zèle.
- Notes:
- "La publication de cet ouvrage, imprimé en 1791, vieux stile, a été retardée par la mort de l'artiste ..."--p. [ii].
- Printer statement from colophon of vol. 4.
- Begun by Gravelot, continued by Cochin, and completed by Gaucher.
- Collects emblematic and allegorical engravings previously issued in the Almanach iconologique, between 1764 and 1781.
- Title pages and plates engraved.
- Engraved title page of vol. 1 signed "PP. Choffard sculp."
- "Avis de l'éditeur.": vol. 1, p. [ii]-iv.
- Engraved portrait of Cochin (vol. 1) dated 1789.
- Pagination: vol. 1: xvi, 99 p., [48] leaves of plates; v. 2: 112 p., [49] leaves of plates; v. 3: 106 p., [49] leaves of plates; v. 4: 168 p., [60] leaves of plates.
- Each vol. includes its own index; v. 4 (p. 145-168) has an additional general index of v. 1-4.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy has a bookseller's description, on two sheets of paper, laid in.
- Cited in:
- Cohen, H. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures du XVIIIe siècle (5th ed.), 248-249
- Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese emblem books, 349
- OCLC:
- 2667168
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