DUMONT, Gabriel-Pierre Martin (ca. 1720--after 1790)
Suite de profils et details d'architecture, levés et mesurés exactement par le Sr. Dumont, ...
A Paris (Place), ruë des Arcis, dans la maison d'un commissre.,, [c. 1770].
14 pl. ; 54.1 cm. (2°)

Issued as suite 5 in Dumont's Recueil de plusieurs parties de l'architecture, 3 tomes, c. 1770 (q.v.). The title-plate (pl. [1]) is numbered as suite No. 5; a note at the foot of the plate states that 'La Description se trouve chez Gueffier, Pere, Libraire, ...'. In the 'Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Mr. Dumont' at the end of the volume, this suite is entitled 'Suitte de Profils et détails de la Sacristie de N.D. de Paris, exécutés sur les desseins de Mr. Soufflot...'. The 'Catalogue' calls for 14 feuilles (leaves of plates) as here and in the Berlin copy, suggesting that the [2] additional plates in the Millard copy may be extraneous. Millard I, pp. 165, 171; Berlin Kat. 2416.

Copy Notes Bound (4), as issued, in vol. II of Dumont's Recueil de plusieurs parties d'architecture.

Binding C18th mottled sheep, blind triple-ruled borders, gilt-tooled spine with floral motifs, red and black spine labels, forming tom. II of Dumont's Recueil de plusieurs parties de l'architecture.

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