[Z] [Cabinet du Roi]

[Cabinet du Roi]

[Vues, plans etc. du Château de Versailles. Paris, 1727], 82 engraved plates (some folding or double-page) showing views, plans, fountains, statues and vases by I. Silvestre, J.-B. Nolin, P. le Pautre, J. le Pautre, L. Simonneau, L. de Châtillon, J. & G. Edelinck, G. Audran and F. Chauveau, [BAL RIBA 518.E (16 of 28 plates), 518.F iii (21 plates) & iv (7 plates), 518.G i (21 plates) and 518.H i (9 plates) & iii (8 plates)], lacking one plan and 10 plates of paintings from the interior of the castle

Ibid. [Fêtes de Versailles] Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée, ou les festes, et divertissements du Roy, à Versailles... commencez le 7me jour de May, de l'année 1664. [Paris, 1727], one part only (of 3), 9 plates by I. Silvestre, [BAL RIBA 518.L i]

bound with 33 other miscellaneous engraved plates

large folio (54cm x 40cm), half nineteenth-century diced russia and marbled boards, some plates inlaid to size, rebacked retaining original spine titled 'Chateau de Versailles' and 'Batiments de France', sold as a collection of plates

Sotheby's, Russian and Continental Books and Manuscripts, including Science and Medicine, 2008 (?), lot 50

Rt. Hon. Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon and Baron Capell of Hadham, 1701, on verso of one plate

Catherine & Edward Bennett, bookplate to pastedown

The works brought together here are part of the remarkable collection of prints known as the ‘Cabinet du Roy’, published in the second half of the 17th century at the behest of the French king Lousi XIV ‘afin d’encourager l’art de la gravure et d’en continuer l’histoire’.