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LE BOUTEUX, Michel (fl. 1680--1736?)
[Plans et dessins nouveaux]
Plans et dessins nouueaux de jardinage du Sr le Bouteux ... [18-line dedication to the Marquis de Louvois signed 'Le Bouteux fils']
A Paris (Place), chez N. Langlois rüe st. Jacques a la Victoire au coin de la rüe de la Parcheminerie,, [c. 1710]
[12] double-page engr. pl. ; 30.3 cm (2°)
The original publication of these plates can be dated from the dedication to Louvois as 'Surjntendant et Ordonnateur general des Bastimens de sa Maisté Arts et Manufactures de France' between September 1683 and July 1691. A subsequent impression by Nicolas Langlois was probably issued in the 1690s as an independent suite and as part of L'architecture à la mode. The Soane copy is a reimpression of the Langlois plates for the second edition of L'architecture à la mode published by Jean Mariette (q.v.) around or after 1710. Guilmard p. 130; Berlin Kat. 3452 (359); BAL, Early printed books, no. 1795.
Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting 1 plate. Bound as pencil numbers 2--11, 75 in Mariette, L'architecture à la mode (q.v.). The 'Elevation du Château d'eau de Villaserf' misbound as pencil number 75.
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 6496
Additional Names Langlois, Nicolas (1640--c.$1700)
[Plans et dessins nouveaux]
Plans et dessins nouueaux de jardinage du Sr le Bouteux ... [18-line dedication to the Marquis de Louvois signed 'Le Bouteux fils']
A Paris (Place), chez N. Langlois rüe st. Jacques a la Victoire au coin de la rüe de la Parcheminerie,, [c. 1710]
[12] double-page engr. pl. ; 30.3 cm (2°)
The original publication of these plates can be dated from the dedication to Louvois as 'Surjntendant et Ordonnateur general des Bastimens de sa Maisté Arts et Manufactures de France' between September 1683 and July 1691. A subsequent impression by Nicolas Langlois was probably issued in the 1690s as an independent suite and as part of L'architecture à la mode. The Soane copy is a reimpression of the Langlois plates for the second edition of L'architecture à la mode published by Jean Mariette (q.v.) around or after 1710. Guilmard p. 130; Berlin Kat. 3452 (359); BAL, Early printed books, no. 1795.
Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting 1 plate. Bound as pencil numbers 2--11, 75 in Mariette, L'architecture à la mode (q.v.). The 'Elevation du Château d'eau de Villaserf' misbound as pencil number 75.
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 6496
Additional Names Langlois, Nicolas (1640--c.$1700)