Description de ce qui a été pratiqué pour fondre en bronze d'un seul jet la figure equestre de Louis XIV
Subtitle: elevée par la ville de Paris dans la place de Louis le Grand, en mil six cens quatre-vingt-dix-neuf : ouvrage françois et latin, enrichi de planches en taille-douce
By: par le sieur Boffrand ...
Contributors: Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1688-1754; Boucher, François, 1703-1770; Tardieu, Pierre François, 1711-1771; Blondel, Jacques-François, 1705-1774; Lesueur, Nicolas, 1691-1764; Leseur, Pierre, 1669-1750; Cavelier, Guillaume, d. 1751; Desprez, Guillaume-Nicolas, 1713-1795
Publisher: Chez Guillaume Cavelier pere ...
Published: 1743
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Bronze founding; Statues; Equestrian statues
Other titles: Descriptio omnium operarum quibus ad fundendam ex aere una emissione metalli Ludovici decimi-quarti statuam equestrem
Notes: Colophon: De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez...

Twenty plates (11 double page), numbered [I]-XVIII, XVII and XVIII repeated. Engraved by Pierre François Tardieu and Jacques-François Blondel. Plate [I] depicting finished statue is after Nicolas Lesueur.

Engraved head-piece by Charles Nicolas Cochin after François Boucher. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some signed PLS le fils (Pierre III Le Sueur?), one dated 1738.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-L² chi² M-Q².

French and Latin in parallel columns.

Binding, c. 1: old mottled paper-covered boards; paper spine.

Copy 3 has second copy of plate [I] bound after Q1.