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Labyrinte de Versailles.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Historical Garden Design Online. Sources from the 16th to the 19th centuries ; GDH-89.
- Standardized Title:
- Labyrinthe de Versailles.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Fountains--France--Versailles--Early works to 1800.
- Fountains.
- Maze gardens--France--Versailles--Early works to 1800.
- Maze gardens.
- Parc de Versailles (Versailles, France).
- Aesop's fables.
- Genre:
- Engravings -- France -- 17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (34, [2], 79, [4] p. ) ill. (engravings), plan ;
- Contained In:
- Historical Garden Design Online. Sources from the 16th to the 19th centuries
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale, 1679.
- Notes:
- Full page engravings, by S. Le Clerc, of the fountains in the Labyrinth (which represented Aesop's fables) with prose epitomes of the fables and descriptive text by Ch. Perrault, and metrical versions of the fables by Benserade.
- Illustrations included in pagination, although printed as leaves of plates. Blank versos ignored in pagination.
- Title vignette: arms of Louis XIV.
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