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Tangu et Félime, poëme en IV chants

Illustrated by: Clément Pierre Marillier (French, 1740–1808)
Engraved by: Jean Dambrun (French, 1741–about 1808)
Engraved by: Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt (Flemish, worked in France, 1738–1815)
Engraved by: Louis Michel Halbou (French, 1730–1809)
Engraved by: Nicholas Ponce (French, 1746–1831)
Author: Jean-François de La Harpe (French, 1739–1803)
Publisher: Noël-Jacques Pissot (French, 1724?–1804)
1780
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with five etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall: 18.8 x 12.5 x 1.3 cm (7 3/8 x 4 15/16 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1463
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Pissot [1780]

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 589
Description(Paris: Pissot [1780]) Small quarto; 32 leaves, plus 5 plates; early nineteenth-century gilt-stamped half red morocco, red pastepaper boards.

Literary illustrations; decorative engraved title.
ProvenanceViollet Le Duc (book label); Eugène Paillet (bookplate); acquired in 1906 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.