The entry took place 26 August 1660

Text by Jean Tronçon. See Vinet

"De l'imprimerie de François Le Cointe"--Colophon

Signatures: pi1 ã² A-B² 2A-2H² 2I1 3A1 3B-3G² 4A-4C²

Engraved port. of Louis XIV by Nicolas de Poilly after Nicolas Mignard, 1st leaf. Etched frontispiece by François Chauvaud, 2nd leaf. Letterpress title, 3rd leaf. Engraved dedication, 4th leaf. Twenty-one etched ill. (15 of them double page), mostly after Jean Le Pautre; see Vinet. Eleven plates signed by Jean Marot as etcher. Flamen and Cochin de Troyes are also listed among the participating artists on p. [7] of preliminaries. Vinet attributes to Cochin the double-page plates numbered 1-5 that depict the procession. Last plate depicts fireworks. Woodcut t.p. ornament, initials

Vinet, E. Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des beaux-arts

Port. of Louis XIV remargined in Getty copy. The plates depicting the procession are bound in the order 5-1

Binding: polished calfskin (18th cent.?), partly rebacked. Two frames of double fillets in gilt, fleurons at corners of inner frame. Spine gilt tooled, title on label: ENTRE / DV / ROY

8 unnumbered pages, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 34, 14, 17-28, 12 pages, 36 unnumbered leaves of plates : 46 cm (folio)

Text by Jean Tronçon, according to Vinet (E. Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des beaux-arts, 501) and Deutsch (Deutsch, Kristina. Jean Marot, pages 128, 455)

Printer statement from colophon

Signatures: pi² ã² A-B² 2A-2H² 2I²( -2I2) 3A²( -3A2) 3B-3G² 4A-4C²

Engraved portrait of Louis XIV by Nicolas de Poilly after Nicolas Mignard, 1st leaf. Etched frontispiece by François Chauveau, 2nd leaf. Letterpress title, 3rd leaf. Engraved dedication, 4th leaf. Twenty-one etched illustrations (15 of them double page), mostly after Jean Le Pautre, according to Vinet (Vinet, E. Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des beaux-arts, 501). Twelve plates signed by Jean Marot as etcher (according to Vinet; Mauban, A. Jean Marot, pages 68-69; and Deutsch, K. Jean Marot, pages 129, 456-457). Flamen and Cochin de Troyes (either Nicolas Cochin or his half-brother Noël Cochin) are also listed among the participating artists on page 7 of the preliminaries. Vinet attributes to Cochin the double-page plates numbered 1-5 that depict the procession. Last plate depicts fireworks. Woodcut title page ornament, initials

The number of plates varies among different cited copies, as does the number of leaves of plates (larger plates may be tipped in folded as two congruent leaves). Brunet (Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), t. 2, page 1004) counts 18 plates plus frontispiece portrait; Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara counts 26

Tulane University Library's copy has 26 plates including the engraved dedication, bound as 40 leaves of plates (with 14 plates folded into 28 leaves of plates). In this copy, the engraved portrait of Louis XIV is bound as the 3rd leaf rather than the 1st one

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