French Book-plates Part 32

A library interior plate, having the inscription "D. D. LE LEU D'AUBILLY, _dicat qui grat.i.tud coelo sculp Delaitre_."

Beneath the design is a small s.h.i.+eld, bearing azur, a chevron or, between three wolves' heads. The D'Aubilly is an old-established Remois family, to whom the artist was under obligations.

This interesting plate is reproduced in "Les Bibliophiles Remois," p. 103.

DELARBRE. 18th cent.

DELATRE, CH. Modern.

Ex-libris Alberti Metzger, Milhusini. Armorial. (See reproduction.)

DE LAUNAY _le jeune sculp._

1779, on the armorial _Ex Libris d.u.c.h.e_, designed by P. Marillier. (See reproduction.)

DELAUNEY. 19th cent.

Donne a la Bibliotheque de la Ville de Paris, par---- MDCCC.

Armorial; pictorial.

DELCOURT _fils, a Tournay._ 18th cent.

P. DELOYSI _sc._ 17th cent.

On the handsome nameless armorial plate of Pierre Sarragoz, of Besancon, who died in 1649. Reproduced in "Ex-Libris Ana."

Pierre Deloysi, styled _Le Vieux_, was a goldsmith and coin engraver in Besancon.

Engravings by him are now very rare.

DELTEIL, LOYS. Modern.

D'ELVAUX _Sc._

On a nameless plate designed by Monnet. 18th cent.

D'EMBRUN. 18th cent.

DEMENGEOT, C. 19th cent.

Signed, "_Inv. & Sculpt._" on the library interior, inscribed "_Bibliotheque de Francisque Sarcey_."

DE MEUSE. 18th cent.

DEMILLE, M. 19th cent.

DE MONCHI.

"Papillon minoris." Canting arms.

DENISZARD, _inv. et sculps._

On the ecclesiastical plate of P. N. Vingtdeux, a priest bibliophile of the eighteenth century. (See "Les Bibliophiles Remois," p. 85.)

DEROND _f._

A. Leguien. Decorated s.h.i.+eld.

DEROND, J. 18th cent.

DESCAVES, A. 19th cent.

DESMAISON _invenit_, 1780. _L.

Chenu, f._

Ex-Libris Bouju. Armorial.

DESNOYERS. 19th cent.

DEUNEL _Sculp._ 1767.

On a nameless plate having the Grimaldi arms. This might have belonged to Charles Maurice Grimaldi, chevalier de Monaco, comte de Valentinois, who died in 1790. Motto: "_Deo Juvante._"

DEVAMBEZ, _Graveur a Paris._

Auguste Vincent. (Musical Composer.) Design, musical instruments. Modern.

L. P. Couraud.

Bibliotheque de Charles Monselet.

Library interior.

(See reproduction.)

DIEU, A. 18th cent.

Designed the handsome monogram and trophy ex-libris of Louis XV., which was engraved by J. Audran.

DIGOUT, NICOLAS. Modern.

Bibliotheque de Madame Chavernac. Motto: "_To kill time or amend, I am a ready friend._" Armorial; pictorial.

A. DOCAIGNE _fecit_, 1762.

Le Commissaire Laumonier.

Armorial.

D'ORVASY, _a Nancy_. 18th cent.