Recueïl de descriptions de peintures et d'autres ouvrages faits pour le Roy
Contributors: Mabre Cramoisy, veuve, publisher
Publisher: Chez la Veuve de Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy Imprimeur du Roy, ruë Saint Jacques, aux Cicognes
Published: 1689
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 505
Notes: Auec priuilege de sa Majesté -- title page.

Title vignette (printer's device); head- and tail-pieces; initials.

No emblems illustrated; engraved plan of Versailles (p. [335]).

Pages 93-194 describe the two sets of paintings and tapestries "Les Quatre Elements" and "Les Quatre Saisons" by Le Brun and include descriptions and explications of the emblems contained in their borders.

Signatures: ãp4s A-Xp12s Yp2s.

Armorial bookplate of Robert Rolle on front paste-down; signed: "Huntly sc. 74 Bond St.".

Ownership inscription in ink on front fly-leaf recto: "Paris March ye 1st 1700 Robt. Rolle. L'Hotel de Saxe dans la rüe Jacob".

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, F5

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books, 291