Details
BLONDEL, Jacques-François (1705-1774). De la distribution des maisons de plaisance et de la décoration des edifices en général. Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert, 1737-1738.
2 volumes, 4° (285 x 210mm). Half-title and 2pp. errata. Titles in red and black with engraved vignette. Engraved frontispiece and 155 plates, 54 folding, 9 headpieces and initials, 7 tailpieces. (One plate loosely inserted, some browning to the text, occasionally heavy.) Contemporary vellum gilt (lightly soiled).
FIRST EDITION, intermediate issue. The half-title and errata are bound as Z2 and 3 at the back of vol.II, but there is no half-title in the first volume, the frontispiece is in its second state, the dedication in its first and the imprint is as the second issue. "This work deals in great detail with the country house and its garden": Fowler 49; Berlin Kat. 2400.
2 volumes, 4° (285 x 210mm). Half-title and 2pp. errata. Titles in red and black with engraved vignette. Engraved frontispiece and 155 plates, 54 folding, 9 headpieces and initials, 7 tailpieces. (One plate loosely inserted, some browning to the text, occasionally heavy.) Contemporary vellum gilt (lightly soiled).
FIRST EDITION, intermediate issue. The half-title and errata are bound as Z2 and 3 at the back of vol.II, but there is no half-title in the first volume, the frontispiece is in its second state, the dedication in its first and the imprint is as the second issue. "This work deals in great detail with the country house and its garden": Fowler 49; Berlin Kat. 2400.