Livre d'architecture :
contenant les principes generaux de cet art, et les plans, elevations et profils de quelques-uns des batimens faits en France & dans les pays etrangers par le sieur Boffrand, architecte du roy ... : ouvrage françois et latin, enrichi de planches en taille-douce.

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Main Author
Boffrand, Germain, 1667-1754.
Related Names
Cavelier, Guillaume, -1751.
Boucher, François, 1703-1770
Blondel, Jacques-François, 1705-1774.
Tardieu, Pierre François, 1711-1771.
Language(s)
French ; Latin
Published
A Paris : Chez Guillaume Cavelier pere ..., M.DCCXLV [1745]
Subjects
Architecture > Designs and plans > Early works to 1800.
Architecture > Early works to 1800.
Etchings (prints) > France > 18th century.
Engravings (prints) > France > 18th century.
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Signatures: a⁴(-a4) A-L² M1 N-O² P1-X1 Y-Z² 2A1 2B² 2C1 2D² 2E1 2F² 2G1 2H1 2I1.
T.p. vignettes, that on French t.p. signed V.L.S. Jr. (Vincent Le Sueur?). Engraved head-piece at dedication by Tardieu after François Boucher. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
Many plates by Pierre François Tardieu and Jacques-François Blondel, with others by Johann Baptist Babel, Quirijn Fonbonne, Antoine Hérisset, Jean-Laurent Legeay, Claude Lucas, J. de la Marcade, Pierre Moreau, Mutel.
Plates mostly double page, some folded. Plates XXI and XLVII never appeared, though XXI is included in list of plates on p. 99. In Getty c. 2 plate XX has been renumbered XX-XXI, and what is plate XLVIII in c. 1 has been renumbered XLVII, no plate numbered XLVIII being present in c. 2. Errors in foliation of plates in c. 1 partly corrected in c. 2.
Added t.p. in Latin, with title: De architectura liber, in quo continentur generalia hujus artis principia.
Physical Description
3 preliminary leaves, 99, 1 unnumbered pages, XX, XXII-XLVI, XLVIII-LXX plates : ill., plans ; 45 cm. (fol.)
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