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Description de Paris et de ses edifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objets d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J. G. Legrand, ... et par C. P. Landon, ... Ouvrage illustré de plus de cent planches, gravées et ombrées en taille-douce, avec un plan exact de Paris et de ses embellissements. ...
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LEGRAND,, Jacques Guillaume (1753--1808)
[Description de Paris et de ses édifices. 1806--9]
Description de Paris et de ses edifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objets d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J. G. Legrand, ... et par C. P. Landon, ... Ouvrage illustré de plus de cent planches, gravées et ombrées en taille-douce, avec un plan exact de Paris et de ses embellissements. ...
A Paris (Place), chez C. P. Landon, peintre, éditeur-proprietaire,, 1806--09.
2 vols ; 20.5 cm. (8º)
I: 211, [1], 94 p., [1] fold. engr. map, 50 pl. (3 fold.)
II: 102, [2], 48 p., 49 [i.e. 48] pl.
Verso of half-title has imprint statement: De l'imprimerie de Firmin Didot, libraire, et graveur de l'Imprimerie impériale. Only the first part was composed by Legrand and published in 1806; part 2 was taken over after his death by Quatremère de Quincy, and parts 3--4 by N. Goulet, whence the three-year delay in the publication of tome II (see the 'Avertissement' to tome II). Tome II has plate 11 misnumbered '32', and plate 48 misnumbered '49'; a note on the final page explains that the "more than one hundred plates" called for on the title-page are made up by the size of the folded plates 33--35. Another issue has cancel title-pages with the imprint of Treuttel et Wurtz, 1808 (q.v.); the same sheets were issued again in printed wrappers bearing the imprint of C.P. Landon, 1809 (q.v.).
Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting the map. In this copy the 'Seconde Partie' (94 pp. and pl. 32--50) has been bound in vol. II, after the 'Avertissement'. One of Soane's three copies of the Description de Paris was bought from J. Taylor's Architectural Library for 3 guineas on 3 November 1814. (Archive 7A/15/30).
Binding C19th calf, gilt-ruled borders, gilt double-rule spines, red and green spine-labels.
Reference Number 2631
Additional Names LANDON, Charles-Paul (1760--1826); Josiah Taylor's Architectural Library; QUATREMÈRE DE QUINCY, Antoine Chrysosthôme (1755--1849); Goulet, Nicolas
[Description de Paris et de ses édifices. 1806--9]
Description de Paris et de ses edifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objets d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J. G. Legrand, ... et par C. P. Landon, ... Ouvrage illustré de plus de cent planches, gravées et ombrées en taille-douce, avec un plan exact de Paris et de ses embellissements. ...
A Paris (Place), chez C. P. Landon, peintre, éditeur-proprietaire,, 1806--09.
2 vols ; 20.5 cm. (8º)
I: 211, [1], 94 p., [1] fold. engr. map, 50 pl. (3 fold.)
II: 102, [2], 48 p., 49 [i.e. 48] pl.
Verso of half-title has imprint statement: De l'imprimerie de Firmin Didot, libraire, et graveur de l'Imprimerie impériale. Only the first part was composed by Legrand and published in 1806; part 2 was taken over after his death by Quatremère de Quincy, and parts 3--4 by N. Goulet, whence the three-year delay in the publication of tome II (see the 'Avertissement' to tome II). Tome II has plate 11 misnumbered '32', and plate 48 misnumbered '49'; a note on the final page explains that the "more than one hundred plates" called for on the title-page are made up by the size of the folded plates 33--35. Another issue has cancel title-pages with the imprint of Treuttel et Wurtz, 1808 (q.v.); the same sheets were issued again in printed wrappers bearing the imprint of C.P. Landon, 1809 (q.v.).
Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting the map. In this copy the 'Seconde Partie' (94 pp. and pl. 32--50) has been bound in vol. II, after the 'Avertissement'. One of Soane's three copies of the Description de Paris was bought from J. Taylor's Architectural Library for 3 guineas on 3 November 1814. (Archive 7A/15/30).
Binding C19th calf, gilt-ruled borders, gilt double-rule spines, red and green spine-labels.
Reference Number 2631
Additional Names LANDON, Charles-Paul (1760--1826); Josiah Taylor's Architectural Library; QUATREMÈRE DE QUINCY, Antoine Chrysosthôme (1755--1849); Goulet, Nicolas