Author: Jacob, P.L.
Title: Xviiime Siecle: Lettres, Sciences Et Arts
Description: Paris, Firmin Didot et cie, 1878. Hardcover. Red leather boards with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt tooling; all edge gilt; burgundy and gilt decorative end pages; color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; xiii pp, 560 pages, 36 plates (16 in color including frontispiece). Text French. " Book illustrated with 16 chromolithographs and 250 wood engravings (including 20 printed out of text) after Watteau, Vanloo, Largillière, Doucher, Lancret, Greuze, Chardin, Desportes, Oudry, Vernet, La Tour, Les Saint-Aubin, Gravelot, Cochin, Eisen, Moreau, Marillier, Debucourt, Etc."- Translated from title page. Includes alphabetical list of painters, sculptors, architects, draftsmen, engravers, ornamentalists, etc. whose works are reproduced in the volume, with references to pages or they appear, and chronological note on each artist. VG- (overall bumping and wear to boards, front end page is loose with previous owner's name on rear. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

Keywords: General European Art ; French Art, France Civilization ; ;


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