Description
REPRINT OF THE RÉGENT EDITION published in 1718.
COPY IN LARGE PAPER REPRINTED IN QUARTO FORMAT with the figure of the "little feet" before the letter.
The illustration, engraved by Benoît Audran after compositions by Philippe d'Orléans (Philippus), includes a title-frontispiece dated 1718, twenty-nine out-of-text figures and is complemented in this reprint by four culs-de-lampe by Cochin.
A very fine, freckle-free copy in an elegant period binding in richly decorated morocco.
Bound in full contemporary chocolate brown morocco, smooth spine decorated with caissons and fleurons, boards richly decorated with friezes and fleurons, fore-plates edged and decorated with friezes, red morocco title-piece, all edges gilt. Minor restorations to the spine.