Main entry:

La Font de Saint-Yenne.

Title & Author:

L'ombre du grand Colbert, le Louvre, et la ville de Paris; dialogue.

Publication:

A La Haye [publisher not identified], 1749.

Description:

165 pages 17 cm

Notes:
Attributed to La Font de Saint-Yenne.
Title vignette; head-pieces; initial; marginal notes.
Bound in brown leather over marbled paper; spine ruled into six panels by five raised bands, with gilt title and floral decorations; triple gilt rule border on front cover; gilt edges; ribbon pull.
Anonymous. By Etienne La Font de Saint-Yenne. Cf. Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes.
Includes poem "Sur le Louvre Par M. de Voltaire": p. 159-60.
Error in pagination: 75 numbered 65.
Errata: p. 161-165.
Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), III, 709
Library copy: bound (1) with: Le génie du Louvre aux Champs Élisées ... [Paris? : s.n.], 1756 -- Essai historique sur le Louvre. A Paris : Chez Pierre Prault, 1758.
Library copy: binding: 18th-century mottled calf, gilt spine with title label, edges of text red, blue ribbon marker. T.p. inscribed "Par Mr. de la font de St. Yenne".
Library copy: from the library of Wolfgang Herrmann, with minor notes by him loosely inserted.

Subject:

Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 1619-1683.
Musée du Louvre.
Painting, French.
Art, French 18th century.
Peinture française.
Art français 18e siècle.
Art, French.
Architecture France Paris
France History Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
France.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Voltaire, 1694-1778
Provenance. Herrmann, Wolfgang, 1899- Dealer info.

Ombr de Colbe

Holdings:

Location: Library cage y 90628
Call No.: ID95B4887
Status: Available