Placets de l'officier Desbans
By: preface by Neil MacGregor
Contributors: Saint-Aubin, Gabriel Jacques de, 1724-1780; MacGregor, Neil, 1946-; Wrightsman, Jayne; Roxburghe Club
Series: [Roxburghe Club publications -- no. 279]; Roxburghe Club publications -- no. 279
Publisher: Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: fre
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Pictorial works; Library; Promotions; Petitions; Facsimiles; France. Armée; France
Notes: Petitions of an army officer named Desbans (probably Edme Louis Desbans) to Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI requesting promotion to a lieutenant-colonelcy.

Facsim. ed. of a book made in Paris in 1775, containing fifteen pictorial decorations, as well as head- and tailpieces by Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin who also lettered the text.

Foreword by Jayne Wrightsman.

Includes bibliographical references (1st group, p. 14).

Wrightsman collection, v. 5, p. 340-344