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Palais, maisons, et autres édifices modernes, dessinés à Rome. Paris : Chez les auteurs, au Louvre et P. Didot l'ainé (imprimerie de Baudouin), [1798].
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PERCIER Charles (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard FONTAINE (1762-1853)
Palais, maisons, et autres édifices modernes, dessinés à Rome. Paris : Chez les auteurs, au Louvre et P. Didot l'ainé (imprimerie de Baudouin), [1798].
The first book to introduce the Empire Style with its mixture of Greek, Roman, Italian, and Egyptian elements. Percier and Fontaine were Napoleon and Josephine's primary architects, and were inspired to produce this work during their stay in Rome just after Percier had won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1786. The plates are of interior views, details, and exterior elevations to gardens. This is the second edition, published in the same year as the first, with only a slightly different title-page, and complete with the rare subscribers’ list. Millard I, 133; cf. Berlin Ornamentstichsammlung 2733 ; Cicognara 3822 (eds. 1798).
Folio (445 x 295mm). Letterpress title with engraved vignette, 8pp. ‘Discours preliminaire,’ 100 engraved plates on 99 sheets including pictorial title plates for each cahier, with plates 12 and 13 on one sheet, and 44 pp. of letterpress at end comprising 4pp.‘Avis des Editeurs,’ and 40pp. of ‘Explication des planches,’ ‘Noms des principaux auteurs,’ ‘Table chronologique des architects’ and ‘Liste des souscripteurs.’ (lightly spotted throughout). Later leather-backed boards (somewhat scraped and rubbed, front inner hinge starting). Provenance: A.E. Chambellan (papetier, ticket) – Philip Hewat-Jaboor (booklabel).
Palais, maisons, et autres édifices modernes, dessinés à Rome. Paris : Chez les auteurs, au Louvre et P. Didot l'ainé (imprimerie de Baudouin), [1798].
The first book to introduce the Empire Style with its mixture of Greek, Roman, Italian, and Egyptian elements. Percier and Fontaine were Napoleon and Josephine's primary architects, and were inspired to produce this work during their stay in Rome just after Percier had won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1786. The plates are of interior views, details, and exterior elevations to gardens. This is the second edition, published in the same year as the first, with only a slightly different title-page, and complete with the rare subscribers’ list. Millard I, 133; cf. Berlin Ornamentstichsammlung 2733 ; Cicognara 3822 (eds. 1798).
Folio (445 x 295mm). Letterpress title with engraved vignette, 8pp. ‘Discours preliminaire,’ 100 engraved plates on 99 sheets including pictorial title plates for each cahier, with plates 12 and 13 on one sheet, and 44 pp. of letterpress at end comprising 4pp.‘Avis des Editeurs,’ and 40pp. of ‘Explication des planches,’ ‘Noms des principaux auteurs,’ ‘Table chronologique des architects’ and ‘Liste des souscripteurs.’ (lightly spotted throughout). Later leather-backed boards (somewhat scraped and rubbed, front inner hinge starting). Provenance: A.E. Chambellan (papetier, ticket) – Philip Hewat-Jaboor (booklabel).
