1765 · Rouen
by PAINTED FOIL AND MICA BINDING
Rouen: veuve Besongne [Marie-Madeleine-Josèphe Gruchet], 1765. 32mo (binding 107 x 66 mm). [128] pp. Woodcut royal arms on title, rule page borders. Stab-stitched in a contemporary mosaic binding of white calf, covers with outer frame and irregularly shaped lozenge border of gold-tooled brown calf onlays, the reserved corners and large central area filled with gold and silver metallic or foil ornaments on a ground of red foil, a different inset watercolor painting of a putto at center of each cover, both paintings with manuscript mottoes in red ink, the portraits set within a wreath of gold and silver foil surmounted by a gold urn with a silver bouquet; (truncated)