Author: DALY César :
Title: Motifs Historiques d'Architecture et de Sculpture d'Ornement . (Deuxième Série). Décorations Intérieurs empruntées à des Edifices Français. Volume Premier - (Volume Second).
Description: .: 18. Paris, Ducher et Cie, 1880,2 vols in-folio, 44 x 33 cm, (8) + 91 plates (numbered 7 pl. + 17 pl. + 17 pl. + 5 pl. + 16 pl. + 13 pl. + 30 pl.) ; (8) + 81 plates (numbered 40 pl. + 55 pl.) Some plates count for two in the numbering, 17 plates are in chromolithography (5 double page), the other plates engraved. Contemporary dark green half leather. (Some wear at the binding's extremities, some light marginal foxing at some plates, but a nice copy). Incomplete, lacks 2 volumes dealing with the exteriors. One of the most extensive collections of measured drawings of French decoration in the 16th to 18th century. Concentrates heavily on lost Parisian examples (quote from Cat. Weinreb 53 item 166). .

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