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Le Jupiter Olympien, ou l'art de la sculpture antique considéré sous un nouveau point de vue; ouvrage qui comprend un essai sur le gout de la sculpture polychrome, l'analyse explicative de la toreutique, et l'histoire de la statuaire en or et ivoire chez les Grecs et les Romains, avec la restitution des principaux monumens de cet art et la démonstration pratique ou le renouvellement des ses procédés mécaniques; par M. Quatremère-de-Quincy, ...
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QUATREMÈRE DE QUINCY, Antoine Chrysosthôme (1755--1849)
Le Jupiter Olympien, ou l'art de la sculpture antique considéré sous un nouveau point de vue; ouvrage qui comprend un essai sur le gout de la sculpture polychrome, l'analyse explicative de la toreutique, et l'histoire de la statuaire en or et ivoire chez les Grecs et les Romains, avec la restitution des principaux monumens de cet art et la démonstration pratique ou le renouvellement des ses procédés mécaniques; par M. Quatremère-de-Quincy, ...
A Paris (Place), chez De Bure Frères, libraires du Roi et de la Bibliothèque du Roi. De l'imprimerie de Firmin Didot,, 1815.
[4], vi, [2], xxv, [1], 458 p., hand-col. engr. frontis., XXXI pl. (19 hand-col.) : [2] engr. illus. ; 49.7 cm. (2°)
Published in 1814. Many copies have the title-page postdated 1815 as here, to allow a dedication to Louis XVIII. This work was a pioneering study of the colossal chryselephantine cult statues of Pheidias and Greek polychromatic sculpture. BAL, Early printed books, no. 2683.
Copy Notes Inscribed in pencil on front free-endpaper Very fine plates/ £12..12..0. A copy was offered to Soane on 2 June 1814 by John Weale, who claimed to have bought it from the author about two years earlier for £9 15s. and was prepared to sell it to Soane for that price, though 12 guineas was what he had asked in his catalogue. The author, he said, 'charges now very high prices for them', meaning the parts in which the work was issued. (Archive 16/12/71). With blue paper printed bookseller's label of Priestley and Weale pasted in on front paste-down endpaper.
Binding Original C19th full red paper boards, green morocco spine-label.
Reference Number 3103
Additional Names Priestley and Weale
Le Jupiter Olympien, ou l'art de la sculpture antique considéré sous un nouveau point de vue; ouvrage qui comprend un essai sur le gout de la sculpture polychrome, l'analyse explicative de la toreutique, et l'histoire de la statuaire en or et ivoire chez les Grecs et les Romains, avec la restitution des principaux monumens de cet art et la démonstration pratique ou le renouvellement des ses procédés mécaniques; par M. Quatremère-de-Quincy, ...
A Paris (Place), chez De Bure Frères, libraires du Roi et de la Bibliothèque du Roi. De l'imprimerie de Firmin Didot,, 1815.
[4], vi, [2], xxv, [1], 458 p., hand-col. engr. frontis., XXXI pl. (19 hand-col.) : [2] engr. illus. ; 49.7 cm. (2°)
Published in 1814. Many copies have the title-page postdated 1815 as here, to allow a dedication to Louis XVIII. This work was a pioneering study of the colossal chryselephantine cult statues of Pheidias and Greek polychromatic sculpture. BAL, Early printed books, no. 2683.
Copy Notes Inscribed in pencil on front free-endpaper Very fine plates/ £12..12..0. A copy was offered to Soane on 2 June 1814 by John Weale, who claimed to have bought it from the author about two years earlier for £9 15s. and was prepared to sell it to Soane for that price, though 12 guineas was what he had asked in his catalogue. The author, he said, 'charges now very high prices for them', meaning the parts in which the work was issued. (Archive 16/12/71). With blue paper printed bookseller's label of Priestley and Weale pasted in on front paste-down endpaper.
Binding Original C19th full red paper boards, green morocco spine-label.
Reference Number 3103
Additional Names Priestley and Weale