Author: Gromort, Georges.
Title: Choix de plans de grandes compositions exécutées. Présentant, avec leurs jardins ou leur entourage une série d'ensembles de l'antiquité, de la renaissance et des temps modernes.
Description: Paris, Auguste Vincent, 1910. Soft cover. Folio. Contains a set of 31 (of 32) plates, some of which are double-page, printed in collotype; 23 leaves of explanatory text; and 4 preliminary leaves, comprising of title printed in red and black, dedication, bibliographie, table des planches. Occasionally chipped or nicked at edges, well within margins. Placed in the original cloth-backed portfolio, cloth ties, spine ends bit worn. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Reprinted in 1925 and in 1944, the first edition is exceedingly scarce. Lacks plate 13/14. A contemporary manuscript inscription on title page states an edition of 900 copies only. The original text "29 planches" is changed in ink to "32 planches". Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. METAL-7 .

Keywords: ARCHAEOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION EXCAVATIONS EXPLORATION EXPLORATIONS SURVEY SURVEYS GEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGICAL GEOLOGY ARCHEOLOGY CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY STUDIES NEAR FAR EAST GREECE GREEK ROME ROMAN EGYPT MEDIEVAL POSTMEDIAEVAL HISTORY P I


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