Philippe POT, Romain DE HOOGHE
Les cent nouvelles nouvelles. Suivent les cent nouvelles contenant les cent histoires nouveaux, qui sont moult plaisans a raconter, en toutes bonnes compagnies; par maniere de joyeuseté
Chez Pierre Gaillard|à Cologne 1736|9.50 x 15.50 cm|relié
A new edition of the Cent Nouvelles nouvelles, published in 1736 under the fictitious Cologne imprint of Pierre Gaillard, probably printed in Amsterdam, and reproducing the celebrated illustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe first issued in 1701.
Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece engraved by Gilliam van der Gouwen after De Hooghe and one hundred half-page copper-engraved illustrations after the artist's designs, comprising 45 in the first volume and 55 in the second. Several are signed by Jan van Vianen or Laurens Scherm. The copperplates were reworked for this edition by Bernard Picart...
€1,800