Author: PICART, Bernard.
Title: Explication des vignettes de la seconde edition des oeuvres de Boileau, in folio. Gravées pour la seconde fois, avec divers changemens & plusieurs nouveaux desseins, par Bernard Picart.Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1729. Oblong 4to. With 25 engraved vignettes and 2 engraved initials on 25 leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled turn-ins.
Description: 8 pp., [25] ll.Very rare first and only edition of a collection of engraved vignettes by Bernard Picart (1673-1733) that were used as illustrations in the 1729 edition of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Oeuvres, The Hague, Pierre Gosse & Jean Neaulme (Lewine, p. 73). For the present edition Picart engraved new plates with the same designs. The lavish vignettes are all signed and dated 1728 on the plate and include a portrait of Erasmus, the coat of arms of the Princess of Wales, the coat of arms of Grandmaster de Wignacourt, a portrait of Louis XIV of France, the coat of arms of Guillaume de Lamoignon (1617-1677) and theatrical and allegorical scenes. The first 8 text pages provide information about the scenes in the vignettes.The present print album is very scarce, we traced only two copies: in the Rijksmuseum and at the University of Glasgow.Bookplate of the famous collector Jean Furstenberg on front paste-down. Front hinge broken. Minor foxing. Otherwise in good condition.l Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-51.977; WorldCat (1 copy); not in Lewin, cf. Lewine, p. 73, for the Boileau-Despréaux vignettes.

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