Fête Book.- Sacre et couronnement de Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, à Rheims, le 11 juin 1775 [&] Le Sacre de Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre dans l'église de Rheim[s], 2 parts in 1, half-titles, engraved title within ornamental border, pictorial title to part 2, double-page armorial plate, folding plan of Reims, 9 double-page views of the ceremony, 39 costume plates, and 14 vignette head-pieces, 19 letterpress ff. describing costume plates, without the portrait of Louis by Duplessis found in some copies (a further portrait by Saint-Aubin is sometimes also found), some spotting and light staining, lightly browned, contemporary armorial mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments, with fleurs-de-lis decoration and later leather label, covers with central royal arms within a triple filet border with internal fleur-de-lis corner-pieces, rubbed, [Cohen-de Ricci 785; Watanabe-O'Kelly 2208], 4to, Paris, [Charles-Emmanuel] Patas, 1775.

⁂ Handsomely produced record of the coronation of Louis XVI.

Provenance: Jacques Lacour Gayet (small leather bookplate).