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Edité par Paris: Monrocq Freres, c. 1857, 1857
Vendeur : Cole & Contreras / Sylvan Cole Gallery, Sitges, BCN, Espagne
Edition originale
First and only edition. Two leaves of text (half-title, list of plates, title-page) plus fifty gorgeous lithographs by Victor Petit, each depicting a recently-built country house near Paris. COMPLETE. About a third of each plate is devoted to the floor-plans of the house in question. Printed on very fine bright white wove paper. Aside from being an architectural and art-historical document of the first order of importance, this set of lithographs is a work of great artistic merit and beauty. Folio. TEXT AND LITHOGRAPHS LOOSE AS ISSUED IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED CLOTH-BACKED BOARD PORTFOLIO, WITH CLOTH TIES. Portfolio case a bit worn but still solid. Text pages and plates FINE AND BRIGHT. An incredibly fresh set. Rare and important.
Edité par Monrocq frères 1850-1860, Paris, 1850
Vendeur : Cole & Contreras / Sylvan Cole Gallery, Sitges, BCN, Espagne
Edition originale
Five volumes, complete. A COMPLETE SET, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, WITH 340 BEAUTIFULLY COLORED LARGE FOLIO LITHOGRAPHS (50 of which are entirely unrecorded), OF VICTOR PETIT'S FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WORKS ON ELEGANT COUNTRY LIVING, ONE OF THE GREAT MASTERWORKS OF BOTH CIVIL ARCHITECTURE AND COLOR LITHOGRAPHY. ***** 1. Habitations champêtres: Title-page (with large lithographed image of a country house) plus one hundred gorgeous lithographs by Victor Petit, all printed in color and extensively retouched by hand, each depicting a a country house or related structure, such as a gazebo, belvedere, pavillion, etc. ***** 2. Maisons de campagne: half-title and title plus one hundred gorgeous plates, all printed in color and extensively retouched by hand. This work normally includes only 50 plates by Victor Petit, but the set I offer includes 50 more, numbered from 51 to 100, by Cheneveau after Leblan, obviously intended as a continuation. THESE FIFTY PLATES DO NOT APPEAR IN ANY RECORDED COPY OF THE WORK, AND ARE OBVIOUSLY EXTREMELY RARE. ***** 3. Parcs et jardins: half-title, title, introduction (2 pp), description of plates (2 pp) plus fifty gorgeous plates, printed in color and retouched by hand. ***** 4. Petites constructions pittoresques: half-title, title, introduction (1 p), description of plates (3 pp) plus fifty gorgeous plates, printed in color and retouched by hand. ***** 5. Habitations cosmopolites: forty gorgeous plates of astonishingly elegant country houses all over the world, printed in color and extensively retouched by hand. ***** Large folio. THE FIRST FOUR VOLUMES ARE BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN QUARTER VELLUM AND MARBLED BOARDS. The final volume is in the original cloth-backed board portfolio. A few little, faint stains here and there, but generally in EXCELLENT CONDITION, with the colors in the lithographs extremely fresh and luminous. The bindings are BRIGHT AND FINE. COMPLETE SETS ARE OF THE GREATEST RARITY. I HAVE NOT FOUND ANY RECORD OF THESE FIVE VOLUMES EVER HAVING BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE TOGETHER.