Lot 19: ENGRAMELLE, MARIE DOMINIQUE JOSEPH.

ENGRAMELLE, MARIE DOMINIQUE JOSEPH. PAPILLONS D'EUROPE, PEINTS D'APRÈS NATURE. PARIS : P.M. DELAGUETTE, BASAN & POIGNANT, 1779-1792 First edition , 8 volumes bound in 7, 4to (291 x 230mm.), half-titles (except in volume 8, bound with 7), 3 additional engraved titles, 2 coloured, one plain, engraved dedication leaf, 337 (of 353) engraved plates, all but 3 coloured by hand, contemporary French red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt fillet borders on covers, flat spines tooled gilt in 5 compartments, gilt turn-ins and edges, later morocco-tipped slipcases, lacks all after volume 8, page 88

Nissen ZBI 1300

Elizabeth Beauclerk, Countess of Pembroke (1766-1793), pencil note on flyleaf; Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh, bookplate

A very attractive copy. Nissen calls for three portraits and six frontispieces, but the Bradley Martin and Fattorini copies collate as here. This copy is complete to 1792, the final plates being published the year after.