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Description
DALY, César.
Private Architecture in the 19th Century. Third series. Painted interior decorations. Volume One.
Paris, Librairie générale de l’architecture, 1877.
Folio (43 x 31 cm). Contemporary green morocco-bound half-basane, spine with decorative faux raised bands, gilt title (binding rubbed, corners and edges worn, slight foxing, very faint marginal water stains towards the beginning of Part 1, small tear without loss in the margin of plate 9 of the 3rd section).
Devoted to private architecture, both exterior and interior, in Paris and its environs, and designed to present the residences built since the beginning of Napoleon III’s reign.
The first volume covers the drawing rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms.
Illustrated with 41 chromolithographed plates, corresponding to the plate lists at the beginning of each section,
complete copy:
Living rooms and outbuildings. (4) folios, 19 plates numbered 1 to 26 (including 7 double plates); Dining rooms and outbuildings. (2) ff., 12 plates numbered 1 to 18 (including 6 double-page plates); Bedrooms and ancillary rooms. (2) ff., 10 plates numbered 1 to 11, including one double-page plate.
See original version (French)
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