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Description
DALY, César.
Private Architecture in the 19th Century. Third series. Painted interior decorations. First [and] Second volume(s).
Paris, Librairie générale de l’architecture, 1877.
2 volumes in one large folio volume (43 x 31 cm). Light brown half-shagreen with period corners, pages mounted on tabs (binding worn, spine missing and front cover detached, foxing).
Devoted to private architecture, both exterior and interior, in Paris and its environs, and designed to present residences built since the beginning of Napoleon III’s reign. The volumes cover drawing rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, studies, entrance halls and other rooms.
Illustrated with 89 chromolithographic plates on 110 sheets, corresponding to the plate lists at the beginning of each section.
A complete copy.
There are few foxing spots on the plates.
Volume 1. Drawing rooms and adjoining rooms. (4) folios, 19 plates numbered 1 to 26 (including 7 double plates); Dining rooms and adjoining rooms. (2) ff., 12 plates numbered 1 to 18 (including 6 double-page plates); Bedrooms and adjoining rooms. (2) ff., 10 plates numbered 1 to 11, including one double-page plate.
Volume 2. Study and adjoining rooms. (4) folios, 8 plates numbered 1 to 9, including one double-page spread; Entrances and adjoining rooms. (2) folios, 25 plates numbered 1 to 27, including 2 double-page spreads; Miscellaneous and parallel illustrations. [2] folios; 15 plates numbered 1 to 19, including 4 double-page plates, (1) folio.
DECORATIVE ARTS.
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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