Author: PETIT Victor :
Title: Petites constructions pittoresques pour la décoration des parcs, fermes et basses-cours... Petits maisons de garde, pavillons, kiosques, belvédères...poulaillers, lapinières...glacières, puits couverts etc.
Description: 18. Paris, Monrocq Frères, s.d. (ca. 1860), in-4° portfolio, 34,5 x 25 cm, (8) nn pp title and list of plates) + 50 colored lithographic plates.150 designs for all types of country villa accessories; boating houses, castellated birdcages, stone bridges, tatched bee hives, greenhouses etc. Publisher's half cloth portfolio with title printed on front cover and on the spine. The text leaves slightly browned, some ties of the portfolio worn or missing, a few plates with tiny marginal stains or spot but a fine copy. Scarce complete copy of this charming colorlithographic publication on garden architecture. Victor Petit was a follower of Lemercier, France's most succesfull colorlithographer and he used his process to obtain these striking color lithographs. .

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