Red morocco from the library of Édouard Rahir - Lot 499

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Red morocco from the library of Édouard Rahir - Lot 499
Red morocco from the library of Édouard Rahir BOCCACE (Giovanni Boccaccio said) The Decameron. London, se. [Prault], 1757. 5 volumes in-8, illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved titles, 110 plates out of text and lamp-heads engraved in intaglio by Le Mire, Legrand and other artists after Hubert Gravelot, François Boucher, Charles-Nicolas Cochin and Charles Eisen. A copy with good margins. Contemporary red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated, fawn title and endpapers, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, fleurs-de-lis in the corners, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt roulette inside, gilt edges. Nice copy. "One of the most successful illustrated books of the 18th century" (Cohen, 160). Elegant edition, appreciated for the quality of the translation by Antoine Le Maçon. The illustration is considered one of the most successful by Gravelot. Provenance : Copy of the library of Édouard rahir, with his bookplate. It took no less than 8 years to disperse this important library - printed bookplate Ed. Petit.
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