La nouvelle Zélis au bain : poeme en six chants.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pezay, Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson, marquis de, 1741-1777

Contributor:

Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778.

Aliamet, Jacques, 1726-1788.

Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801.

Longueil, Joseph de, 1730-1792.

Ghendt, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de, 1738-1815.

Merlin, Joseph, 1718-1783, bookseller.

Language:

French

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Leschenault du Villard (stamp) (RBC copy)

Lescheneault fils Villars (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 78 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Nouvelle edition.

Place of Publication:

A Geneve : [publisher not identified] ; Et se trouve à Paris : chez Merlin, libraire ..., MDCCLXVIII [1768]

Notes:

Written by Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson, marquis de Pezay. Cf. Barbier.

Edition statement from added engraved title leaf

Signatures: pi1 A-K⁴ (leaf K4 blank).

Engraved plates: added title leaf and six illustrations by Charles Eisen, engraved by Jacques Aliamet, Emmanuel de Ghendt, Noël Le Mire, and Joseph de Longueil.

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: letter-press title leaf wanting.

RBC copy bound with: Pezay, Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson. Zelis au bain. A Geneve : [s.n.], [1763?].

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.

RBC copy has stamp ("M. Leschenault du Villard") and blue paper bookplate ("Leschenault fils Villars.") on front pastedown.

RBC copy bound in full contemporary mottled calf; boards triple ruled in gold with a gold acorn stamped in each corner; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped brown morocco spine label ("ZELIS AU BAIN"); marbled endpapers; all edges stippled red; green silk marker.

Cited in:

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), III, p. 564

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 43670

OCLC:

6881428