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Labyrinte de Versailles
Title
Labyrinte de Versailles.
Publication
A Paris : De l'imprimerie royale, 1679.
Physical Description
34 pages, [2], 69, [5] pages : plan, illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes
Signatures: a-b⁸c² 41 l. unsigned, F².
First published in 1677; prose descriptions are by C. Perrault, fables in verse by I. de Benserade, engravings by S. Leclerc.
The designs for the fountains in the Labyrinth were based on Aesop's fables.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day i, log 108 (with Caylus's two volumes, Gambarini, Overbeke, and Pataroli), to Slatter, 14/-; given by John A. Gifford, who had purchased it from Edgar Wells, January 1928, to W.S. Lewis.
Variant and related titles
Labyrinthe de Versailles
Aesop's fables. French.
Format
Books
Language
French
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 301
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Genre/Form
Travel literature.
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