- Bookplate on upper pastedown; title-p. sl. dam. (loss of letters and closed tears); partly w. (restored) dam., mostly in blank margins (occas. in text/ images); doublures foxed/ sl. stained.
= Cf. Bonacini 1689; cat. Jammes 40; Cohen, Suppl. 233. In this edition of the work, the breasts of the mermaids are covered. The baroque masterpiece of the Parisian calligrapher and engraver Louis Senault, lavishly embellished with ornamental and historiated initials, landscape vignettes, figurated en-têtes, culs de lampe, subtitles within ornamental borders etc. "Senault endavoured to preserve in his engraved books the full flavour of a contemporary manuscript" (PMM 98).
AND 1 other: K. VON ECKARTSHAUSEN, Gott ist die reinste Liebe (Vienna, ±1800, engr. frontisp. and title, contemp. gilt red mor., a.e.g., slipcase, sm. 8vo).