Versailles Festival Books

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29.01.2021 10:00UTC -04:00
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VERSAILLES – Les Plaisirs de l'Isle Enchantée Festes galantes et magnifiques faites par le Roy Versailles M.DC.LXIV. Paris, 1673-4. 9 engraved plates by Israel Silvestre. [BOUND WITH:] Relation de la Feste de Versailles du 18. Juillet mil six cens soixante-huit. Paris: Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy for the Imprimerie Royale, 1679 [AND] Les divertissemens de Versailles. Paris, 1676. 6 engraved plates by Jean Le Pautre.

Sammelband of Versailles festival books, depicting celebrations and performances at the court of Louis XVI. "The folios in these magnificent illustrated books were paper monuments that packaged and gave permanence to ephermeral events for the delectation of future readers of viewers" (The Edible Monument). Les Plaisirs de l'Isle Enchantée records a week-long festival of lavish meals, designer carriages in procession, and performances by artistic luminaries, all nearly ten years after the events took place. This sammelband contains the prints only for Plaisirs and Divertissemens, with the text and prints of the Relation. Watanabe 1916 and 1924; The Edible Monument pp. 37-46.

Folio (415 x 268mm). First work: 9 plates by Israel Silvestre; second work: 5 plates by Jean le Pautre; third work: 6 engraved plates by Jean le Pautre (occasional light spotting, repaired creases of some plates). Contemporary French mottled calf, gilt (rebacked). Provenance: Bibliotheque de Saint Ange (bookplate).
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