Book, Album of Prints: Collection of Festivals, Fireworks, and Funerals, Organized for the King by the First Gentleman of his Bedchamber

This is a Book. It was designed by François Nicolas Martinet and Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger and published by Imprimerie de Ballard and print maker: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, François Nicolas Martinet and Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger and production directed by Michel de Bonneval and sculpted by Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz and Paul-Ambroise Slodtz and made by Pierre Vente and from the office of Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. It is dated 1735-1756 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is bound volume, engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It has the following markings

Sales card, printed on paper, pasted to the top of the past down endpaper of the upper cover; Léon Decloux Ex Libris, printed on paper, pasted to the middle of the paste down endpaper of the upper cover

It is inscribed

Printed in center of binder's tradecard: VENTE, Relieur et Doreur / de Livres des Menus Plaisirs / de la Chambre du Roy. / Demeure au bas de la Montagne / Sainte Genevieve, au Batiment / neuf des Carmes de la Place / A Maubert. Paris; Printed in salescard, lower left: Moreau Inv et fecit.; Inscribed in red ink in center of Leon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 108.

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