NECKER (Jacques). Report to the King. Paris, De l'Imprimerie - Lot 92

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NECKER (Jacques). Report to the King. Paris, De l'Imprimerie - Lot 92
NECKER (Jacques). Report to the King. Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Cabinet du Roi, 1781. In-4, fawn half-basane with small vellum corners, spine ribbed and underlined with cold fillets, red title piece, red edges (Modern binding in the taste of the time). Goldsmiths, number 12183. - Stourm, pp. 124-125. Genuine original edition, printed in small numbers and not put on the market. It was distributed to a few privileged people before the publication of the book the same year by the Royal Printing Office. It is decorated with 2 watercoloured folding maps (map of the gabelles and map of the drafts of France) and a large folding table giving the incomes and expenses of the Royal Treasury. The most famous work by Necker (1732-1804), who, in his desire to introduce transparency into the functioning of the State, had the audacity to describe the principles and mechanism of its administration and to give the state of public finances. Copy on strong paper, including a frontispiece engraved on copper by Le Beau after Le Clerc, with a medallion by Necker seen in profile: only a few rare copies contain one. It may have belonged to Baron de Vaulx, President of the Parliament of Grenoble, as seems to be indicated by a handwritten leaflet of the time bound at the end of the volume, a copy of a letter addressed by this magistrate to Necker in 1781 and the latter's reply: The Parliament wishes to hold in your hand a copy of the account you have just given to the King, I am charged to ask you for it on his behalf; his intention is to place it in his archives as a monument that will be a landmark in this century. Handwritten quotation in pen on a guard: 6395 bis ter. 19th century ex-libris of the Maison Saint-Stanislas in Aix-en-Provence (Ex librisDomussanctiStanislai - Bibliothecaartium). Stamp erased from the title. Headdress redone.
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