Description: 24.4 x 15.9 cm, softcover in-8vo, light-green publisher's wrappers, lettered in black to both covers and and spine; bookplate pasted to verso of the front wrapper: “LE GÉNIE DE LA GRAVURE | CONSOLE LE GÉNIE DU DESSIN | {vignette} | BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CLAUDETTE HOULD ||
Title-page: ÉCOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES — IV
e SECTION | Sciences historiques et philologiques | — | VI | HISTOIRE ET CIVILISATION DU LIVRE | 18 | CHRISTIAN MICHEL | CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN | ET LE LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ | AU XVIII
e SIÈCLE | Avec un catalogue raisonné des | livres illustrés par Cochin | 1735-1790 | Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Centre national | de la Recherche scientifique | {device} | GENÈVE | LIBRAIRIE DROZ | 11, rue Massot | 1987 ||;
front wrapper also has in the bottom: Librairie CHAMPION, 7 quai Malaquais – Paris ||
Collation: 8vo; [1]-25
8, 26 leaves of plates (fig. 1-169) extraneous to collation, 26+[27]
14 28
8; plates: unpaginated photo reproduction of Cochin’s 169 drawings and engravings; quire 27 unsigned, together with quire 26 makes 14 leaves.
Pagination: [i-vii] viii-x, [1] 2-431 [423 colophon] [2 blank], 26 leaves of plates.
Provenance:
Claudette Hould, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, spécialiste d’histoire de l’art français.
Ref.:
British Museum.
Publisher:
Droz
Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715 – 1790)
See Cochin's illustrated books in this collection:
LIB-2941.2021,
LIB-2766.2021;
LIB-2640.2021;
LIB-2529.2020.