BLONDEL, Jacques François (1705-1774). De la distribution des maisons de plaisance et de la decoration des edifices en general. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1737-1738. 2 volumes, 4° (279 x 210 mm). Titles printed in red and black with large woodcut devices. Engraved frontispiece to vol. I, 155 plates of which 57 double-page or folding. (Occasional light browning.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green gilt morocco labels, marbled endpapers, red edges (worn). Provenance: Emily Mercer, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1819-1895; bookplate).

BLONDEL, Jacques François (1705-1774). De la distribution des maisons de plaisance et de la decoration des edifices en general. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1737-1738. 2 volumes, 4° (279 x 210 mm). Titles printed in red and black with large woodcut devices. Engraved frontispiece to vol. I, 155 plates of which 57 double-page or folding. (Occasional light browning.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green gilt morocco labels, marbled endpapers, red edges (worn). Provenance: Emily Mercer, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1819-1895; bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, second issue, agreeing with every issue point according to Fowler. The first published work by Blondel, the most significant French architectural educator of the 18th-century, discussing many aspects of the country house. Berlin Kat. 2400; Fowler 49; Millard French 25; RIBA 297.