PAILLOT DE MONTABERT, Jacques Nicolas (1771--1849)
Traité complet de la peinture, par M. P*** de Montabert. ...

Paris: chez Bossange père, libraire de S. A. R. Mgr. le Duc d'Orléans, 1829.
10 vols ; 20.7 cm. (8º)
I: XXIX, [129], 624, [2] p.
II: [6], 653, [13] p.
III: [6], 546, [6] p.
IV: [4], 718, [10] p.
V: [4], 558, [8] p.
VI: [4], 567, [19] p.
VII: [4], 530, [16] p.
VIII: [4], 662, [10] p.
IX: [6], 720, [10] p.
Atlas: [4] p., [114] pl. ; 27.0 cm. (4º)

Montabert, a pupil of David, was an historical and portrait painter, and the inventor of an encaustic process of painting. The atlas of 'Figures Explicatives' has 110 numbered plates with bis plates 51, 56B and C, and 94. The half-title verso of vol. I has a list of 28 other booksellers. With the imprint of the Imprimerie de Béthune on the half-titles verso; vol. VII additionally has the imprint 'Troyes, Imp. de Me. Bouquot' on the colophon.

Binding C19th calf, gilt double-rule borders and spine, black morocco spine-labels.

Reference Number 2812