[FESTIVAL BOOK]. - Lot 35

[FESTIVAL BOOK]. Description des festes données par la ville de Paris, à l'occasion du Mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, & de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand Amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième Août mil sept cent trente-neuf. Paris : imprimerie de P. G. Le Mercier, 1740 - Large in-folio, marbled fawn calf, roulette with palmettes and fleurs-de-lys in frames, fleur-de-lys gilded at the corners and arms of Paris in the center of the boards, ornate spine, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Unique edition of this superb festive book dedicated to the marriage by proxy of Elisabeth de France, eldest daughter of Louis XV, then aged 12, and Philippe de Bourbon, second son of Philippe V of Spain, on August 26, 1739. It was one of the most sumptuous celebrations to be held in Paris in the 18th century. The illustration consists of a vignette with the coat of arms of Paris on the title, engraved by Soubeyran after Bouchardon, a large entablature depicting the joust on the Seine, drawn and engraved by Rigaud, 2 initials and 12 (of 13) plates engraved by Blondel, including 7 (of 8) fold-outs. Plate 6 is missing. Binding damaged, first board partly unbound, stains on boards and spine, headpieces torn off, epidermis, edgewear. The interior is very well preserved.