Author: [MEUSNIER DE QUERLON (Anne Gabriel)], editor:
Title: Les Graces.
Description: A Paris Chez Laurent Prault....; & Bailly..., 1769 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 213 x 136 mms., pp. viii, 330 [331 - 332 Approbation, 333 - 335 adverts, 336 blank], engraved frontispiece (by Bouche), engraved title-page, 5 full-page engraved plates (by Moreau), contemporary mottled calf, gilt borders on covers, neatly rebacked with old gilt spine in compartments and red morocco label laid down; front end-papers slightly damaged at top inner margin, but a very good copy with the small oval armorial bookplate of Charles George Milnes Gaskell on the front paste-down end-paper, and a large armorial bookplate with the name Malacrida and the motto of the ROyal Stuart dynasty, "nemo me impune lacessit" above name, on the front paste-down end-papger OCLC notes, recueil de différents ouvrages sur les Graces. (Publié par A.G. Meusnier de Querlon, précédé d'une dissertation par l'abbé Guill. Massieu et suivi d'un discours par le P. Yv.-Mar. André.) -A. Barbier, cited below./ Captions on plates: F. Boucher inv., J.B. Simonet Sculp., J.M. Moreau le Le inv., De Longueil Sculp. .../ Engraved t.p. within decorative border, vignette; head and tail pieces./ Signatures: ap4A-X8 (C5,E4, L3, X8 versos blank)./ Includes bibliographical references. The lawyer and eighteenth-century man of letters, Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon 15 April 1702 – 12 April 1780) was employed in the King's library from 1727 - 1735. Cohen de Ricci, 834. Barbier II, 552.

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