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Shelfmark

Gi.1.09 - Gi.1.10

Author

Title

Monuments français inédits pour servir à l'histoire des arts depuis le VIe siècle jusqu'au commencement du XVIIe. Choix de costumes civils et militaires, d'armes, armures, instruments de musique, meubles de toute espèce, et de décorations intérieures et extérieures des maisons, dessinés, gravés et coloriés d'apres les originaux par N. X. Willemin ... Classés chronologiquement et accompagnés d'un texte historique et descriptif, par André Pottier ... .

Publication, distribution, etc.

A Paris, : Chez Mˡˡᵉ Willemin, Rue de Sèvres, n. 19., M. DCCC. XXXIX. [1839]

Physical description

2 v. with [302] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 45 cm.

Note

Two engraved title-pages added: the second has vignette portrait of Willemin.

Note

Printer's name from verso of half-title ("De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, Rue de Vaugirard, n. 9."), with list of 24 additional booksellers in Paris, London and Mannheim.

Note

Includes list of subscribers in v.2.

Note

Pagination: [6], vii, [1], 4, 82, [2] p. and 149 leaves of plates; [4], 73, [3] p. and 150-302 leaves of plates.

Provenance

Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedowns.

Binding

19th-century red morocco over ?millboards bound by Francis Bedford. Covers decorated with gilt fillets to form a border; gilt fillets also on board edges and gilt roll on turn-ins. Spine with six raised bands, decorated with gilt tools and titling ("Willemin. Monuments français"; "Tome [I./II.]"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated laid paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.

Copy-specific note

Former ECL shelfmark: Gi.2.01-02.

Subject

Art France History.

Subject

Costume France.

Subject

Decoration and ornament France.

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Added entry--place

France Paris.

Language code

fre

Identifier

B51119
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