Livre d'ecriture italienne : pour les demoiselles de la Maison Royale de St. Louis établie à St. Cyr / presenté au Roy et a la Reyne par Louis Marchand, maître à écriture de Madame la Dauphine mére de sa Majesté.
A writing book for the girls at the Maison Royale de Saint Louis, a boarding school set up in 1684 by Madame de Maintenon, Louis XIV's second wife.
Notes
Date based on dedication to "la Reyne" (i.e. Marie Leszczynska).
"Par Priviléges du Roy" -- At foot of title page
Illustrations: Engraved throughout, calligraphic title page with two coats-of-arms (signed at bottom, "De Berey, sculpt."), leaf [2] depicting a noblewoman seated at a writing table (signed "Bertin, pinx., Tardieu, scul.") with engraved alphabet letters and writing text samples on other leaves, some taken from the Bible; Bertin is possibly Nicolas Bertin, 1668-1736.
Cotsen copy: Last leaf laid down to wrapper, apparently as issued.
Binding note
Contemporary hand-marbled paper wrappers, stab-sewn.
Other title(s)
D'ecriture italienne
OCLC
1340478991
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