Full title: Paris and its Environs, displayed in a series of two hundred picturesque views. From Original Drawings taken under the direction of A. Pugin, esq. The engravings executed under the superintendence of Mr. C. Heath. With Topographical and Historical descriptions in two volumes. Both volumes are printed in 1831. Volume I is a second edition, and Volume II is a first edition. Original green buckram boards, with simple gilt titles to spine. Each volume has an engraved title page with vignette. Volume I has 100 engraved views on 50 plates (good quality art paper). Volume II has 102 views on 51 plates. Opposite each is a text sheet with text in English. To the verso of this is the same description in French. The edges of each plate have the original small stab marks to them. Boards are in excellent condition, with just a slight bumping. Internally clean and tidy throughout with just a little foxing to some pages. There is a weakening to the front hinge of Volume I; now reinforced with archival tape. Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) was an Anglo-French artist, architectural draughtsman, and writer on medieval architecture. He was the father of Augustus Welby Pugin, the celebrated Catholic architect. 300 x 230 mm (11¾ x 9 inches).