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Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'Eglise de Reims, le dimanche XXV octobre MDCCXXII.

[Paris, imprimé au frais du roi, 1731].

Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France & de Bavaree, Dans L'Eglise de Reims,

2° (625 x 467 mm – 24 ⁴/₆ x 18 ³/₆ in). Contemporary dark-blue calf gilt with royal arms on sides (OHR 2495, fer 20), large gilt border made up of 4 large stamps of laurel and acanthus leaves, crowned royal cipher at corners, spine elaborately gilt in 10 compartments with crowned royal ciphers, gilt edges (Padeloup). 

Paper yellowed and small stains in lower margin of title. Joints and spine repaired, discreet marks on boards. 

Handsome presentation copy on thick paper in a sumptuous blue morocco binding by Padeloup, decorated with four large plaques especially designed for this edition.

Engraved throughout, frontispiece, preface and contents including 9 vignettes, 32 leaves of text, 9 double-page engraved plates, 30 plates of costumes within elaborately ornamented borders, double-page table of contents, single-page bearing the "noms des peintres et graveurs", Audran, Bauvais, Cochin, Dupuis, Drevet, Edelinck, Haussad, Tardieu, Petit, etc, after Pierre Dulin and Pierre Josse Perrot.

A monumental illustrated account of Louis XV’s coronation at Reims cathedral showing the king in full regalia, and the costumes of the dignitaries in attendance within a decorative and pictorial border. The description was written by Antoine Danchet and revised by Jean-Paul Bignon et Claude Gros de Boze.

The binding was designed and executed by Antoine-Michel Padeloup, who was appointed royal binder to Louis XV in 1733. The foliate and floral ornament border is composed from the repeated impression of four large plaques (type B described by Paul Culot). Louis XV had to wait nine years before the first copy was presented to him on 24 December 1731.

Provenance

Michel Wittock (bookplate);

Sale in these rooms, 18 June 2008, lot 132.

Literature

Cohen, 917.

Ruggieri, 546 ("fort recherché pour la beauté des 9 grandes planches, des nombreux portraits et des encadrements du texte").

Katalog Berlin, 3009.

Lipperheide, 2713.

Paul Culot, "Sur quelques reliures d'époque à décor doré du Sacre de Louis XV", in Cahiers de Mariemont, I, 1970, p. 36-51.

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Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'Eglise de Reims, le dimanche XXV octobre MDCCXXII.

[Paris, imprimé au frais du roi, 1731].

Exemplaire de présent, sur papier fort et dans une somptueuse reliure de Padeloup.

Provenance

Michel Wittock (ex-libris);

Sotheby's Paris, 18 juin 2008, lot 132.

Bibliographie

Cohen, 917.

Ruggieri, 546 ("fort recherché pour la beauté des 9 grandes planches, des nombreux portraits et des encadrements du texte").

Katalog Berlin, 3009.

Lipperheide, 2713.

Paul Culot, "Sur quelques reliures d'époque à décor doré du Sacre de Louis XV", in Cahiers de Mariemont, I, 1970, p. 36-51.