DUPLESSIS-BERTAUX,, Jean (1747--1819)
Recueil de cent sujets de divers genres, dessinés et gravés a l'eau-forte, par J. Duplessi-Bertaux; représentant toute sorte d'ouvriers occupés de leurs travaux, scènes de comédies, scènes populaires, ...
A Paris (Place), chez les éditeurs,, 1814.
14 p., etch. port., etch. t.-pl., [99] etch. pl. ; 21.5 cm. (oblong 4°)

Parallel letterpress half-title, title and text in English (title taken from letterpress). The plates are in 8 suites, each containing 12 plates; the final suite is unnumbered and there are [3] additional plates on 2 leaves; with the title-plate this makes a total of 100 plates.

Copy Notes Signed in ink on front free endpaper John Soane/1814 and inscribed with the price 4/4/0 Boydell. Bought from Boydell & Co. for 4 guineas on 7 September 1814. (Archive 7A/15/19).

Binding C19th original full brown Kleisterpapier boards.

Reference Number 2154

Additional Names Boydell & Co.; Bertaux-Duplessis, Jean; Bella, Stefano della; Callot, Jacques