Les hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siecle
Subtitle: avec leurs portraits au naturel
By: par Mr. Perrault, de l'Academie Françoise
Publisher: Chez Antoine Dezallier ...
Published: 1696
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Biography; Early works to 1800; Portraits
Notes: Two issues are known. The first issue contains biographies of Arnauld and Pascal at v. 1, p. 15-16 and 65-66 respectively, each with added engraved portrait. In the second issue, these leaves have been cancelled and replaced with biographies and portrait of Thomassin and Du Cange, and the Table to v. 1 has been updated with cancel slips. Some copies of the second issue are known with the suppressed leaves added--Cf. Brunet.

Portraits engraved by C. Duflos, G. Edelinck, J. Lubin, and P. van Schuppen after designs by numerous artists.

Engraved allegorical title-page in vol. 1, vignettes and tailpieces by S. Le Clerc; woodcut headpieces by P. Le Sueur.

"Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le 28. Septembre 1696"--V. 1, p. [10] (1st count); "Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le 30. May 1700"--v. 2, p. [103].