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120 - LAMOUR (Jean). A collection of metalwork pieces which Stanis…
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LAMOUR (Jean). A collection of metalwork pieces which Stanislas the Benevolent, King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, had installed on the Place Royale in Nancy, to the glory of Louis the Beloved... with a Treatise on the Art of Metalwork... For sale in Nancy, from the author, [1768]. Folio (59 x 45 cm), modern half-shagreen binding in havana colour with corner pieces, spine with 5 raised bands, red sheepskin title label (skillfully restored and with slight water stain at the margin of the title page, some slight soiling and slightly yellowed margins). Undoubtedly the finest book on metalwork ever published, describing and showcasing a major work of 18th-century decorative art: the ornamentation created by Jean Lamour (1698–1779) for the buildings on Nancy’s majestic Place Royale, now known as Place Stanislas. First edition, comprising an engraved title page within a frame; an engraved dedication page illustrated with a vignette showing King Stanislas visiting the ironwork workshop; 10 pages of text comprising the author’s Preface, an explanation of the plates and the privilege, headed by an engraved vignette based on a work by Girardet featuring a medallion portrait of Stanislas; the illustrations consist of 20 engraved plates, the first of which is in three folding panels, and the penultimate one comprising a single folding panel. The plates were numbered in ink at the time, from 8 to 28, with each illustration counted; the first plate is unnumbered (collation conforms to the BnF copy FRBNF30730370, which states ‘28 plates’). As is often the case, some plates bear handwritten captions. A carefully produced copy. (Berlin Cat., 1365; Cohen, 596).
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Auction time 07/09/2026 at 2:00 PM
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