PERCIER, Charles (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard FONTAINE (1762-1853). Palais, maisons et autres édifices modernes dessinés a Rome. Paris: Ducamp, 1798.

PERCIER, Charles (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard FONTAINE (1762-1853). Palais, maisons et autres édifices modernes dessinés a Rome. Paris: Ducamp, 1798.

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PERCIER, Charles (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard FONTAINE (1762-1853). Palais, maisons et autres édifices modernes dessinés a Rome. Paris: Ducamp, 1798.

First edition, a collection of illustrations of the finest residences in and around Rome, a fundamental work of the empire style.

Folio (378 x 272 mm), 100 engraved plates on 99 sheets, plate 5 duplicated, engraved title vignette, another vignette and a cul-de-lampe (a few plates with minor paper flaws or repairs, some minor marginal dampstaining at end). 19th-century half morocco (spine label renewed). Provenance: Thiery (early owner’s name on title); Bibliothek von Herrmann (armorial ink stamp on title); Matthias Hetherington (bookseller’s label). Berlin Kat. 2733.

Percier “is considered the principal creator and the most inspired master of the style which they represented, the ‘style empire’” (Millard). Berlin Kat. 2733; Millard French 133.
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