(History / Fine arts). Titon du Tillet (Evrard). "Description... Lot 28

(History / Fine arts). Titon du Tillet (Evrard). "Description of the Parnassus François executed in bronze followed by an alphabetical list of poets and musicians gathered on this monument. Dedicated to the King". Paris, Coignard, 1721, in-12 bound in full basane, spine ribbed and decorated. Color endpapers. (XVIII) 366 pages. Table. Small lack of leather at the foot (2 mm), paper label on the spine, split at the height of the upper box, very light wetness throughout the book from page 357 to the end. Copy well kept. First edition. Captain of dragoons, then butler of the duchess of Burgundy, Titon du Tilllet conceived the project of erecting a monument to the glory of the poets and musicians of the reign of Louis XIV : "For me, Admirer of so many illustrious men, who have made their names and their glory immortal, I have hazarded to raise to the famous poets and musicians, a monument that I have named Parnassus Francis, over which presides Louis The Great, the August Protector of Science & Fine Arts" This grandiose and grandiloquent monument was never built....The work remains today a true source of biographical information on the XVIIth and XVIIIth century.