Villas maisons de ville et de campagne composées sur les motifs des habitations de Paris moderne dans les styles des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe & XIXe siècles et sure un choix des maisons les plus remarquables de l’etranger.
Paris: A. Lévy, 1864. Folio. [iii], iv pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. With 53 full-page architectural chromolithograph plates (misnumbered). Contemporary marbled paper over boards; some browning and spotting but generally a very good copy. Item #17811
First edition; a much more common second edition was printed three years later. This work contains a series of architectural plates representing facades, plans and sections with indications of measurements, finely drawn and printed in color. Plates are misnumbered and it is unknown the exact number of plates originally included in this first edition. The plates additionally serve as a history of French architecture and design detailing the styles from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century.
Isabey (1821-1895) was a well-known nineteenth century architect trained at the École des beaux-arts in Paris. He was instrumental in the development of plans for a number of the fine mansions of Paris, as well as public buildings such as schools. Leblan (1819-1883), also a prominent French architect and architectural artist of the period, was best known for his plans of the Lille Cathedral.
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