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Lettres à Émilie, sur la mythologie...dernière édition

Illustrated by: Charles Monnet (French, 1732–after 1808)
Engraved by: Pierre Audouin (French, 1768–1822)
Portrait(s) designed by: Joseph Ducreux (French, 1735–1802)
Engraved by: Charles Étienne Gaucher (French, 1741–1804)
Author: Charles Albert Demoustier (French, 1760–1801)
Publisher: Antoine Augustin Renouard (French, 1765–1853)
Printer: Charles Frobert Patris (French, born in 1751?)
1801
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 37 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall (each vol., depth variable): 19.9 x 13.3 x 3.2 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1388a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: C. F. Patris, for Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1801

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 283-84
Description(Paris: C. F. Patris, for Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1801) Octavo, six vols. in three; [v. 1] [5 ll.] 135 pp. [5 ll.], plus plates; [v. 2] [3 ll.] 142 pp. [3 ll.], plus pls.; [v. 3] [3 ll.] 122 pp. [2 ll.], plus pls.; [v. 4] [4 ll.] 133 pp. [2 ll.], plus pls.; [v. 5] [2 ll.] iv, 146 pp. [4 ll.], plus pls.; [v. 6] [3 ll.] 170 pp. [3 ll.]; contemporary gilt-stamped yellow morocco.

Mythological illustrations, author portrait.
ProvenanceJ. F. Maubert (armorial bookplate); acquired in 1923 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.