Anonymous. Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France et de Navarre - Lot 84

Anonymous. Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France et de Navarre, dans l'église de Reims, le dimanche XXV octobre MDCCXXII. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1723. In-plano, red morocco, ribbed spine decorated with gilded motifs (including repeated crowned monograms, fleurs-de-lis and coats of arms), boards framed by a wide gilded fleur-de-lys lace in 5 folded plates with gilded coats of arms in the center, double gilded fillet on the edges, wide gilded interior roulette, gilded edges (period binding). Entirely copper-engraved collection comprising 74 plates, including 15 double-page ones, by Audran, Cochin, Larmessin, Tardieu, Edelinck, etc., after the painters Pierre Dulin and Pierre-Josse Perrot. Comprising: a title-frontispiece, 2 dedication plates, 2 warning plates, 9 double-page plates of "tableaux" depicting the great moments of the coronation, 28 plates of descriptions and allegorical explanations accompanying these tableaux, 30 plates of costumes, a table plate, and a plate listing the names of the artists who executed the work. The texts were written by Antoine Danchet under the direction of Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon and Claude Gros de Boze. (Cohen 916-917.) A rare copy in period red morocco (these being far less common than those in green or blue morocco) covered with the so-called "Padeloup" decoration with the arms and cipher of Louis XV (OHR, 2495, irons n°20 & n°29). The boards are rubbed and worn, but the gilding is intact. A few small marginal tears, an angular tear on one of the description pages, with a lack that does not affect the text, rare spotting.