96 - FESTIVE BOOK. — THE CORONATION OF LOUIS XV, King of France and Navarre, in the Cathedral of Reims, on Sunday, October 25, 1722. [Paris, Royal Printing Office, 1731]. Large folio, midnight blue morocco leather, ribbed spine decorated with gilded motifs (including repeated crowned monograms, fleurs-de-lis, and coats of arms), covers framed by a wide gilded fleur-de-lis lace in five joined panels with a gilded coat of arms in the center, filleted edges, gilded inner roll, gilded edges; binding slightly worn with a long tear in the leather covering on the second cover, cap and corners worn, signs of moisture on the tabs (Bound by Padeloup the Younger, Place de la Sorbonne, Paris). Volume housed in a modern cardboard slipcase.

FESTIVE BOOK. — THE CORONATION OF LOUIS XV, King of France and Navarre, in the Cathedral of Reims, on Sunday, October 25, 1722. [Paris, Royal Printing Office, 1731]. Large folio, midnight blue morocco leather, ribbed spine decorated with gilded motifs (including repeated crowned monograms, fleurs-de-lis, and coats of arms), covers framed by a wide gilded fleur-de-lis lace in five joined panels with a gilded coat of arms in the center, filleted edges, gilded inner roll, gilded edges; binding slightly worn with a long tear in the leather covering on the second cover, cap and corners worn, signs of moisture on the tabs (Bound by Padeloup the Younger, Place de la Sorbonne, Paris). Volume housed in a modern cardboard slipcase. THE MODEL FOR ROYAL AND PRINCELY CELEBRATION BOOKS FOR NEARLY A CENTURY. Commissioned by the king in 1722, this work required nearly ten years of labor and was presented to him on December 24, 1731. The texts were written by Antoine Danchet under the direction of Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon and Claude Gros de Boze. A COLLECTION ENTIRELY ENGRAVED ON COPPER comprising 74 plates, including 15 double-page plates, mounted on tabs, by various artists including Audran, Cochin, Larmessin, Tardieu, and Edelinck, based on works by the painters Pierre Dulin and Pierre-Josse Perrot. That is: a frontispiece title page, 2 dedication plates, 2 warning plates, 9 double-page plates of “scenes” depicting the highlights of the coronation, 28 plates of allegorical descriptions and explanations accompanying these scenes, 30 plates of costumes on portraits identifying the participants, one table plate, and one plate listing the names of the artists who executed the work (Berlin Katalog, no. 3009; Cohen, col. 916–917; Lipperheide, no. 2713; Ruggieri, no. 546). EXAMPLE FEATURING THE COAT OF ARMS AND MONOGRAM OF LOUIS XV (OHR, pl. no. 2495, die no. 20 in large format, die no. 29 in a format larger than those indicated). MAJESTIC EXAMPLE IN MIDNIGHT BLUE MOROCCO LEATHER, SIGNED BY PADELOUP, featuring a variant four-plate decoration, Type B as defined by Paul Culot (“On Several Period Bindings with Gilded Decorations Depicting the Coronation of Louis XV,” *Cahiers de Mariemont*, no. 1, 1970, pp. 36–51). This binding dates from before 1733, according to the label placed in the margin of the last plate by Antoine-Michel Padeloup, as it does not yet bear the title of “King’s Bookbinder,” which he would obtain that year.