Le Pautre, Jean (1618--1682)
Œuvres d'architecture de Jean le Pautre, architecte, dessinateur & graveur du Roi. Tome premier. Contenant les frises, feuillages, montans ou pilastres, grotesques, moresques, panneau, placarts, trumeaux, lambris, amortissemens, plafonds, & généralement tout ce qui concerne l'ornement.

[Vol. II] Œuvres d'architecture ... [continues as vol. I to] Tome second. Contenant les portes, cheminées, lambris, alcoves, cabinets, portails d'eglise, clôtures de chapelle, portes de chœur, retables d'autel, tabernacles, soleils, plaques, eau-benitiers, chaires à prêcher,œuvres & bancs de marguilliers, confessionaux, sépultures, epitaphes, & tombeaux.

[Vol. III] Œuvres d'architecture ... [continues as vol. I to] Tome troisieme. Contenant divers desseins de fontaines, grottes, vûes de jardins, jets-d'eau, termes, supports, vases, burettes, cuvettes, cartouches, salieres, trophées d'armes, carosses & chaises roulantes, bordures de tableau, ecussons & entrées de serrure, grands chiffres, vaisseaux & galeres, paysages, compositions allégoriques, & sujets d'histoire, tirés de la fable, des métamorphoses, de l'histoire ~Romaine, de l'ancien & de nouveau Testament, &c. ...
A Paris (Place), chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du Roi pour l'artillerie & le génie,, 1751.
3 vols ; 49.2 cm. (2°)
I: [6] p., [273] pl. (on 152 leaves)
II: [4] p., [268] pl. (on 149 leaves)
III: [4] p., [246] pl. (on 141 leaves)

A collection of the works of of Jean Le Pautre (1618--1682), a designer and engraver from a French family of artists that also included his younger brother Antoine (1621--1691) who is also responsible for a similarly titled work on architecture (q.v.). The total number of 787 plates includes added engraved title-plates to each volume. The plates, mostly printed two to the leaf in this large paper copy, are in 125 numbered suites arranged in broadly thematic order. Millard I, 97 (pp. 267--9); BAL 1833 describes a later undated edition issued under the imprint 'Chez Cellot & Jombert Fils jeune, ...' suggesting that many of these suites continued to be sold separately. An earlier collection of forty-four suites by Le Pautre (several incomplete), comprising 263 plates and probably datable after 1707 but before the suites were numbered for the Jombert edition, is bound after Soane's copy of J. Curabelle, Examen des oeuvres du Sr. Desargues, 1644 (q.v.).

Copy Notes Large paper copy, bought from Josiah Taylor, Architectural Library for 12 guineas on 3 November 1814. (Archive 7A/15/30). Inscribed in pencil on verso of front free endpaper L B E - 3 vol. gr. pap.; in a different hand M T/ on l'a tiré en petit nombre sur le grand papier/ on le vendoit 300 FF-; and in a third hand Large paper 3 vol 12-12-0.

Binding C18th calf, gilt triple-rule borders with gilt-tooled floral ornaments in corners, gilt-tooled spine, red and green morocco spine-labels.

Reference Number 5588

Additional Names Josiah Taylor