Hardcover
1883 · Paris
Paris: H. Launette - Goupil et Cie, 1883. Limited to 110 sets, this one unnumbered. Hardcover. VG-. A few nicks to leather, bookplate of Edward Francis Searles the wealthy architect in both. Light foxing to the set, but very tight and overall fresh.. 3/4 dark brown leather with 5 raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Volume 1: 192 numbered pages. Volume 2: pages 193-384. Approx 500 BW plates and illustrations throughout the set. Text is in French. Volume I discusses Henri Baron, Edouard de Beaumont, Charles Delort, Alphonse de Neuville, Edouard Detaille, Gustave Dore, Ernest Duez, Louis Francais, Henri Harpignies, Ferdinand Heilbuth, Eugene Isabey, and Jules Jacquemart. Volume II chapters include Gustave Jacquet, Roger Jourdain, L. Eugene Lambert, Eugene Lami, Julien Le Blant, Louis Leloir, Maurice Leloir, Madeleine Lemaire, Baronne Nathaniel de Rothschild, James Tissot, Georges Vibert, and Jules Worms. This set has withstood the test of time and was once in the library of a famous American architect and designer.
(Inventory #: 167646)