Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695, author.

Contributor:

Mabre-Cramoisy, Sébastien, bookseller.

Peter Way Collection of Early Modern Texts (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Painters--Early works to 1800.

Painters.

Architects--Early works to 1800.

Architects.

Illumination of books and manuscripts--Early works to 1800.

Illumination of books and manuscripts.

Architecture--History--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Way, Peter (former owner) (Way copy)

Michel, G(?). (stamp) (Way copy)

Physical Description:

5 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm (4to)

Edition:

Seconde édition.

Distribution:

A Paris : Chez Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy ..., 1672-1688 [volume 1: 1685]

Fingerprint:

sale o-s; s:ns nito (3) 1685 (R) v.1

den- stn- rees auel (3) 1672 (R) v.2

eso- uier rer; vebl (3) 1684 (R) v.3

eui- i-I. a-s& Goes (3) 1685 (R) v.4

a-as s,un e-ie coce (3) 1688 (R) v.5

Notes:

Dedicatory epistle signed by the author.

Edition statement on tome premier only.

Tome premier dated: M. DC. LXXXV. Seconde partie dated: M. DC. LXXII. Troisième partie dated: M. DC. LXXXIV. Quatrième partie dated: M. DC. LXXXV. Cinquième partie dated: M. DC. LXXXVIII.

Signatures: tome 1: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ õ⁴ A-2N⁴ [2O]² (leaf [2O]2 blank) ; 2. partie: pi1 A-3F⁴ 3G1 ; 3. partie: pi1 A-2T⁴ 2V² ; 4. partie: pi1 A-3F⁴ ; 5. partie: pi1 A-2T⁴ 2V⁴(-2V4).

Pagination: tome 1: [32], 279, [13] pages ; 2. partie: [2], 409, [9] pages ; 3. partie: [2], 334, [6] pages ; 4. partie: [2], 411, [5] pages ; 5. partie: [2], 337, [5] pages.

Engraved title vignette, illustrations, head-pieces and initials.

Woodcut title vignettes and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Errata at end of troisième-cinquième parties.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Way copy bound in 3 volumes.

Way copy bound with: Félibien, André. Recueïl historique de la vie et des ouvrages des plus celebres architectes. A Paris : Chez la Veuve de Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy ..., MDCLXXXVII [1687].

Way copy: tome premier and seconde-cinquième parties each has manuscript note identifying the author on title leaf; tome premier has a few manuscript notes in text; seconde partie has a few manuscript marks in text.

Way copy: tome premier, troisième partie and cinquième partie each has partially illegible oval stamp ("G[?]. Michel Avocat à Clermont [...]") on title leaf.

Way copy: each volume bound in full marbled calf(?); boards ruled in blind; gold double-ruled cover edges; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; 2 gold-stamped red leather spine labels, 1 with brief title, 1 with volume number; marbled endpapers; all edges red; volumes 2-3 each has blue silk marker.

Way copy: title leaf of tome premier closely cropped at tail margin with damage to last line of text.

OCLC:

43165277