Œuvres d'architecture de Jean Le Pautre, architecte, dessinateur & graveur du Roi (vol 1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Œuvres d'architecture de Jean Le Pautre, architecte, dessinateur & graveur du Roi (vol 1)
Classmark: Bedford Collection A634
Creator(s): Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Rue Dauphine, Chez Cellot & Jombert Fils Jeune, Libraires pour l'Artillerie et le Génie, à l'Image Notre-Dame
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): 1751
Language: French
Size and medium: 3 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729174
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019870854905181
Description
Each volume has added engraved title page.
Includes 4 pl. by G.M. Oppenort and 6 pl. by Pierre Le Pautre. cf. Guilmard, Les Maitres ornemanistes, p. 75.
Each volume comprises letterpress title page[s], a lists of plates, and an engraved title page. Volume 1 also has avertissement 2 pages. Plates are divided into 125 cahiers [books].
The third volume is a second issue with the cahier [book] Divers sujet d'histoire replaced by Livre de Serrurerie [125], see also list of plates.
Tome [volume] 1: Les frises, feuillages, montans ou pilastres, grotesques, moresques, panneaux, placarts, trumeaux, lambris, amortissements, plafonds, & généralement tout ce qui concerne l'ornement -- Tome [volume] 2: Les portes, cheminées, lambris, alcoves, cabinets, portails d'eglise, clôtures de chapelle, portes de chœur, retables d'autels, tabernacles, soleils, plaques, eau-benitiers, chaires à prêcher, œuvres & bancs de marguilliers, confessionaux, sépultures, épitaphesm & tombeaux -- Tome [volume] 3: Divers desseins de fontaines, grottes, vûes de jardins, jets d'eau, termes, supports, vases, burettes, cuvettes, cartouches, salieres, trophées d'armes, carosses & chaises roulantes, bordures de tableau, ecussons & entrées de serrure, grands chiffres, vaisseaux & galeres, paysages, compositions allégorique, & sujets d'histoire, tirés de la fable, des métamorphose, de l'histoire romaine, de l'ancien & du nouveau testament, &c.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A634: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item; loose excerpt from German sale catalogue, no. 313 for this item/title in volume 1.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A634: contemporary speckled calf, gold tooled on spine and edges, marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A634: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown of each volume: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: AO/20 (3 vols).
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