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[Jardins à la Française]
A Paris (Place), chez N. Langlois, rüe St. Jacques à la Victoire,, [c. 1710]
[6] double-page etch. pl. ; 30.3 cm. (2°)

Untitled; the title is taken from Guilmard, p. 130. Issued as an independent suite and included in L'architecture à la mode published by Jean Mariette around 1710 (q.v.). The suite includes 2 plates of designs for broderies invented by Le Nôtre and engraved by Pérelle; 3 plates of designs for broderies invented by V. Touchar and engraved by Le Pautre; and one uninscribed plate of broderie designs. Berlin Kat. 3458.

Copy Notes Bound as pencil numbers 24--29 in Mariette, L'architecture à la mode (q.v.).

Binding C18th sprinkled calf, gilt tooled spine, red spine label gilt lettered 'Architec/ A La/ Mode', blind lettered 'Tome/ II', circular paper label numbered in ink '151'.

Reference Number 6504

Additional Names Le Pautre, Pierre (1660--1744); Mariette, Jean (1660--1742); Touchar, V. (fl. 1690s); Pérelle


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