DUMONT, Gabriel-Pierre Martin (ca. 1720--after 1790)
Parallele de grands entablements et de charpentes à l'Italienne mis au jour par Sr. Dumont ...
Paris (Place), rue des Arcis, maison occupée d'un commissaire,, [c. 1770].
[16] pl. (on 12 leaves; 8 half-page) ; 54.1 cm. (2°)

Issued as suite 4 in Dumont's Recueil de plusieurs parties de l'architecture, 3 tomes, c. 1770 (q.v.). The title-plate is numbered as plate 1 and suite No. 6. The numbering of the plates is irregular; there are plates numbered 1--10 and 13, with the remainder unnumbered. Millard I, pp. pp. 165, 170--171; Berlin Kat. 2416.

Copy Notes Bound (3), as issued, in vol. II of Dumont's Recueil de plusieurs parties d'architecture. This copy contains a duplicate plate of the entablatures of the 'Bâtiment des Enfants trouvés près de Notre Dame de Paris' (unnumbered) and 'Académie Royale de France à Rome' (numbered 12).

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.

Reference Number 4100