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Labyrinte de Versailles : suivant la copie à Paris, de l'Imprimerie royale, MDCXCIII

Benserade, Isaac de, 1613-1691, Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703, Scherm, Laurens · 1693 · A Amsterdam : Chez Pierre Mortier · 37 pictures

This is a 1693 Amsterdam edition printed by Pierre Mortier, reproducing the Labyrinthe de Versailles, a book of engraved views of the Versailles maze garden whose fountains illustrate Aesop's fables, made by Le Clerc with verses by Benserade and Perrault. The pictures are fine black-and-white copperplate engravings showing clipped hedges, trees, and sculpted fountain groups with small figures in period dress, useful for garden layout, formal axial composition, and fable-based narrative scenes.

Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714 · Aesop's fables · Labyrinths · Fountains · Gardens · Maze gardens

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