Repertoire des artistes. Ou, Recueil de compositions d'architecture et d'ornemens antiques & modernes, de toute espece. Par divers auteurs, dont les principaux sont: Marot, Loire, Du Cerceau, Le Pautre, Cottart, Pierretz, Cotelle, Le Roux, Berain, &c. Avec un abrégé historique de la vie & des ouvrages de chacun de ces artistes (Vol 2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Repertoire des artistes. Ou, Recueil de compositions d'architecture et d'ornemens antiques & modernes, de toute espece. Par divers auteurs, dont les principaux sont: Marot, Loire, Du Cerceau, Le Pautre, Cottart, Pierretz, Cotelle, Le Roux, Berain, &c. Avec un abrégé historique de la vie & des ouvrages de chacun de ces artistes (Vol 2)
Other titles: Recueil de compositions d'architecture et d'ornemens antiques & modernes, de toute espece
Classmark: Bedford Collection A147 (Vol 2)
Creator(s): Jombert, Charles-Antoine (1712-1784)
Additional creator(s): Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques (1549-1584) (Other); Bérain, Jean (1640-1711) (Other); Cotelle, Jean (1607-1676) (Other); Cottart, Pierre (1650-1686) (Other); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682) (Other); Leroux, Jean Baptiste (1677-1746) (Other); Loir, Nicolas Pierre (1624-1679) (Other); Loir, Alexis (1640-1713) (Other); Marot, Jean (1619?-1679) (Other); Pierretz, Antoine le jeune (Other); Babel, P E (Other); Cochin, Charles Nicolas (1715-1790) (Other); Duclos, Claude (Other); Bosse, Abraham (1602-1676) (Other); Callot, Jacques (1592-1635) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, David Lionel (1851-1925) (Former owner); Christie's London (Bookseller); Riviere & Son (Bookbinder)
Publisher: Chez l'auteur, Libraire du Roi pour l'Artillerie & le Génie, à l'image Notre-Dame
Publication city: A Paris, rue Dauphine
Date(s): 1765
Language: French
Size and medium: 2 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723780
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019831980305181
Description
Œuvres d'architecture de Jean Le Pautre was published by Jombert in 1751.
Title page vignettes, that in v. 1 after C. Cochin fils (dated 1762), that in v. 2 by Cl. Duclos. Each vol. has added engraved title page, that in v. 1 by Jean Marot (dated 1764), that in v. 2 by Cottart. Headpiece to "Avertissement," v. 1, by Babel [pl. 85].
According to the tables of contents, v. 1 has 251 plates arranged in pts. 1-24, v. 2 has 437 plates in pts. 25-56 [688 plates].
Vol. 2 includes a number of suites that are less narrowly related to ornament, e.g.: pt. 50. Diverses etudes de têtes et figures anatomiques, dessinées et gravées par Abraham Bosse [anatomical drawings]-- pt. 53. La vie de l'enfant prodigue, faite par noble Jacques Callot.
Indexed in: Cicognara,
Indexed in: Cicognara,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A147: 3 excerpts from sale catalogues pasted onto front flyleaf for this item, nos. 206, 2761, and 66 Christie's London sale 25 June 1986; loose photocopied pages from catalogue about this publication.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A147: 19th century red levant morocco by Riviere [Bound by Riviere & Son on binding front pastedown], gold tooled on cover and spine, gilt fore-edge.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A147: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/7 (2 vols). Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons. Bart. of Broomhill Tunbridge Wells [(1851-1925), British scientific author and barrister)].
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