Mascarades

Engraved throughout. The title in French is set in the opening of an architectural frame rendered in perspective, with two standing male figures. Jean Jacques Boissard is twice credited in Latin with designing the plates on the frame above the title, and Robert Boissard is credited a second time with engraving them on the frame below: Robertus Boissardus calpssit Argentinae [Strasbourg]. Some of J.J. Boissard's drawings are after Heinrich Aldegrever and Jacques de Geyn; see Allgem. Künstlerlexikon, article on Boissard, Robert Leaf [2] is Latin text. Leaf [3] is frontispiece depicting Fame, with Greek inscriptions on the altar and on a ribbon. Leaves [4]-[27] depict figures in elaborate costumes, mostly pairs of male and female, with moralizing Latin couplets at foot Binding: red goatskin (early 20th cent.?). Title, author & date on spine in gilt. Edges of boards and turn-ins tooled in gilt. Page edges marbled and gilt. Striped ribbon place marker 27 unnumbered leaves : 27 cm