[Rarebooks] fa: JEAN-BAPTISTE DE GRECOURT - OEUVRES COMPLETES 1789 - 4 vols./Fragonard Plates

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, March 20. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain

Jean-Baptiste de Grecourt: Oeuvres Completes de Grecourt, enrichies de gravures; nouvelle edition, soigneusement corrigee, et augmentee d'un grand nombre de Pieces qui n'avoient jamai ete imprimees. Paris: Imprimerie de Chaignieau aine, 1789. First edition thus. Four volumes, 8vo (20.5 cm), bound in green morocco by Riss & Saucet of Moscow, gilt-tooled borders and turn-ins, all page edges gilt, silk endpapers; with the half-titles, portrait frontispiece and 8 engraved plates (complete).

Cohen-De Ricci mentions only a later issue of this handsomely printed edition (1796), though the collation appears to be the same. The sometimes strikingly "moderne" plates are engraved after designs by Fragonard fils. Bindings with light edge-wear, occasional rubbing and scuffing, spines a bit rubbed/darkened; a few leaves in vol. I with their corners bent, one plate with a small stain, very occasional traces of faint browning/foxing, otherwise the contents are exceptionally clean and bright. Small engraved circular bookplates of Gustave Chancel (1876) in each volume; front paste-down of vol. I with the original binder's label ("Riss & Saucet a Moscou") and the armorial bookplate of Ross Ambler Curran, early twentieth-century West Coast society figure and bibliophile.