Jacques-Guillaume Legrand / Charles-Paul Landon - Description de Paris et de ses édifices - 1817

Charming two-volume set of this second illustrated edition with 115 superb plates, engraved and shaded in intaglio -

These monumental works, the fruit of the collaboration between architect Legrand and designer Landon, constitute one of the major syntheses of the early 19th century devoted to the French capital, offering a detailed and illustrated study of its monuments, public and religious buildings, as well as its urban perspectives -

The authors deploy a descriptive and historical approach, tracing the architectural evolution of Paris and highlighting the masterpieces that make it a major artistic and political center -

These fascinating volumes present a methodical progression: the first devoted to the oldest buildings and emblematic monuments, the second widening the perspective to modern constructions and urban ensembles, while underscoring the continuity and transformations of the city -

The edition is an essential work for the history of architecture and urban planning, offering modern readers valuable testimony on the perception and representation of Paris at the beginning of the 19th century, and contributing to the diffusion of architectural and patrimonial knowledge that nourished national consciousness and the interest of discerning amateurs -

Jacques-Guillaume Legrand / Charles-Paul Landon - Description of Paris and its buildings - 1817 - Volumes I and II - Treuttel and Würtz - VIII-386 and 248 Pages.

Very good condition of bindings, volumes in their brown edition demi-veau, marbled boards, tiny scuffing to the spines, gilded head edges, spine with raised bands nicely adorned, titlings, paging and the author's name gilded on pieces of blue shagreen, gilt date at the foot of the volumes, fine cold-press border detailing along the edges -

Good interior condition, significant foxing, page of the half-title of Volume I and a plan of Paris missing, curious pagination at the beginning of Volume I, inherent to the edition but also due to the omissions, volumes enriched with 115 plates, engraved and shaded in intaglio, second edition carefully corrected in all parts, marbled endpapers in good condition, ex-libris of Serge and Jean Barrier from the library of Mr A. Barrier -

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