A COLLECTION OF REGAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES OF FRANCE, In Upwards of Three Hundred Large Folio Copperplates. Copied from The Most Valuable Originals, found either in ancient Monuments or Buildings; or in Paintings, Carvings, Drawings, or Engravings, preserved in the choicest Cabinets of the Kingdom; relating to its History, Government, Constitution, Laws, Manners, Customs, Weapons, Armour, habits and Fashions; their Commencement, Duration and Changes: Representing All that peculiarly concerns the Persons, Families, and Illustrious Actions, of Many of The Kings, Queens, Dauphins, and other Children of France, Princes of the Blood, Peers oft he Realm, High Officers, and Lords of State, Civil and Military, together with several of
A COLLECTION OF REGAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES OF FRANCE, In Upwards of Three Hundred Large Folio Copperplates. Copied from The Most Valuable Originals, found either in ancient Monuments or Buildings; or in Paintings, Carvings, Drawings, or Engravings, preserved in the choicest Cabinets of the Kingdom; relating to its History, Government, Constitution, Laws, Manners, Customs, Weapons, Armour, habits and Fashions; their Commencement, Duration and Changes: Representing All that peculiarly concerns the Persons, Families, and Illustrious Actions, of Many of The Kings, Queens, Dauphins, and other Children of France, Princes of the Blood, Peers oft he Realm, High Officers, and Lords of State, Civil and Military, together with several of | Libri antichi e moderni | [France, Antiquities], Montfaucon
A COLLECTION OF REGAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES OF FRANCE, In Upwards of Three Hundred Large Folio Copperplates. Copied from The Most Valuable Originals, found either in ancient Monuments or Buildings; or in Paintings, Carvings, Drawings, or Engravings, preserved in the choicest Cabinets of the Kingdom; relating to its History, Government, Constitution, Laws, Manners, Customs, Weapons, Armour, habits and Fashions; their Commencement, Duration and Changes: Representing All that peculiarly concerns the Persons, Families, and Illustrious Actions, of Many of The Kings, Queens, Dauphins, and other Children of France, Princes of the Blood, Peers oft he Realm, High Officers, and Lords of State, Civil and Military, together with several of
A COLLECTION OF REGAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES OF FRANCE, In Upwards of Three Hundred Large Folio Copperplates. Copied from The Most Valuable Originals, found either in ancient Monuments or Buildings; or in Paintings, Carvings, Drawings, or Engravings, preserved in the choicest Cabinets of the Kingdom; relating to its History, Government, Constitution, Laws, Manners, Customs, Weapons, Armour, habits and Fashions; their Commencement, Duration and Changes: Representing All that peculiarly concerns the Persons, Families, and Illustrious Actions, of Many of The Kings, Queens, Dauphins, and other Children of France, Princes of the Blood, Peers oft he Realm, High Officers, and Lords of State, Civil and Military, together with several of | Libri antichi e moderni | [France, Antiquities], Montfaucon
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- Anno di pubblicazione
- 1750
- Luogo di stampa
- London
- Autore
- [France, Antiquities], Montfaucon
- Editori
- Printed for W. Innys in Pater-noster-Row, J. and P. Knapton in Ludgate-street, and R. Manby and H. S. Cox on Ludgate-Hill
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- FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUMPTUOUS WORK ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF
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- True
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2 volumes. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with upwards of 300 large folio copperplates throughout the two volumes, many double page. A veritable treasure of early French originals housed in ancient buildings, paintings, carvings, drawings, engravings et al., many being double page, others corresponding to one another, continuations from one plate to the next, especially the Suite of Harold, the Suite of William the Conquerer. Large Folio, (16" x 10.25"), bound in contemporary polished calf, the covers with triple fillet rules in blind surrounding an inner framework of two roll-tooled decorations in blind, the spines with raised bands over cords, the compartments decorated with panels triple gilt fillet ruled enclosing gilt corner tools and central fleurs-de-lys gilt, marbled endleaves and edges. [2], ii, 82 plus 154 plates; 74 plus 150 plates pp. A crisp an clean and beautifully preserved copy internally, the bindings now with some light cracking at the hinges, some old repairs to the heads and tails of the spine panels, the cracking to the Vol. I hinges is more than that of Vol. II, the cords and pastedowns still holding but tender.
