INVENTORY #7213
Dictionnaire des Monogrammes, Chifres, Lettres Initiales, Logogryphes, Rebus, &c
CHRIST, (Jean-FrÈdÈric)
Regular price
$400.00
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Publication Info
- Publisher: Michel Lambert
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: 1754
- Place Published: Paris
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Ex-Library
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
xxiv, lvi, 378 p. plus 35 p. index. 20 cm. Title page vignette. Over 1500 monograms. Headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Particularly beautiful headpiece of angels flanking a coat of arms on p. iii. Full leather. Hinges cracked and torn top and bottom, edges rubbed, corners bumped. Library and cataloguing labels on front paste-down endpaper along with a clipping from a bibliographical listing. Free endpaper has ink code. Title page has ink notation, ink stamp scratched out in pencil, blind stamp and hole-punched stamp. Blind stamps on pp. 377-379. Hole punch stamp pp. 405-407. A compilation of symbols and initials used by various painters, engravers and draftsmen to mark their works, accompanied by index.