MUSIC]. LA BORDE (Jean Benjamin de). Choice... - Lot 190 - Thierry de Maigret

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MUSIC]. LA BORDE (Jean Benjamin de). Choice... - Lot 190 - Thierry de Maigret
MUSIC]. LA BORDE (Jean Benjamin de). Choice of songs set to music. In Paris, Chez De Lormel, 1773. 4 volumes large in-8°, calf, gilt fillet framing the boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (period binding). FULLY ENGRAVED WORK comprising four titles, including a general title decorated with a lyre, three other titles with figures, a dedication decorated with the arms of Marie Antoinette de Lorraine, archduchess of Austria and dauphin of France, to whom the work is dedicated, and 100 intermediate titles introducing musical scores preceded by prints engraved by J. M. MOREAU LE JEUNE & LE BARBIER. Backs faded. "This book, one of the most beautiful of the 18th century, is perhaps, with the Tales of La Fontaine, the most pleasant by the grace of the subjects and the variety of the costumes which are represented there. ]... The first volume] is a small masterpiece of composition, spirit and execution" (Cohen, 534).
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