Galerie du Musée Napoléon, publiée par Filhol, graveur, et rédigée par Lavallée (Joseph) ... Dédiée a S.M. l'Empereur Napoléon Ier

Book Description

Paris: Chez Filhol or vueve Filhol, l'imprimerie de Gillé or Gillé fils, 1804-1815. 10 volumes, 8vo. (10 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches). Half-titles. 720 engraved plates. Contemporary English green straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with simple paneling in gilt and blind, spines gilt in six compartments with double raised bands, the bands highlighted in gilt, lettered in gilt in the second, third and fourth compartments and with decoration at the head and foot of the spine, gilt turn-ins, brown glazed endpapers, g.e. A fine set of this extensive record of art in Paris in the Napoleonic era. Bound for Sir Robert Johnson Eden this set spent the first part of the 20th century in the library of American department-store owner, philanthropist and francophile: Rodman Wanamaker. The plates include work from many of the best engravers working in Paris at the time and the engravings are after the work of most of the greatest western artists from the 18th century and earlier. In addition there are a significant number of images of sculpture from antiquity and later. Cf. Brunet II,1256

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