[ARCHITECTURE] HAVARD, Henry (ed.). La France artistique et - Lot 196

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[ARCHITECTURE] HAVARD, Henry (ed.). La France artistique et - Lot 196
[ARCHITECTURE] HAVARD, Henry (ed.). La France artistique et monumentale. Paris, Librairie Illustrée - Société de l'Art français, s.d. [CIRCA 1898]. 6 vol. in-folio, dark green half-chagrin with corners, cold-framed ribbed spines, gilt title and tomaison to entrenerfs, gilt head, covers and spines preserved. Contemporary binding. Approx. 206 pages per volume, 150 photographs printed in heliogravure off-text, including 1 frontispiece in volume 1, numerous woodcuts in black in and off-text, headbands, lettrines and culs-de-lampe. Title printed in black and red. Minor rubbing, slight white marks on leather. A few small brown spots, not serious. An important panorama of the jewel of French architecture, profusely illustrated with woodcuts and heliogravure photographs. It was published under the direction of M. Henry Havard, with the collaboration of various art critics (J. Cousin, L. de Fourcaud, Ph. Gille, L. Gonse, J. Guiffrey, E. Muntz, Ch. Yriarte). Complete set of 6 volumes in 6 volumes, broken down as follows: Volume I: Reims, Versailles, Hôtel Carnavalet, Brou, Pau, Avignon, Bagatelle. Volume II: Le Louvre, Rouen, Fontainebleau, La Légion d'Honneur, Amboise, Angers, Mont Saint-Michel. Volume III: Blois, Palais de l'Institut, Maintenon, Lyon, Hôtel Soubise, Bourges, Aiguesmortes, Cluny. Volume IV: Paris, Vézelay, Nîmes, Laon, Ecouen, Poitiers, Chambord, Meudon. Volume V: Amiens, Reims, Autun, Chantilly, Villebon, Bordeaux, Coucy - Pierrefonds - Vincennes, Saint-Antonin, Lyon. Volume VI: Paris, Dijon, Chartres, Rouen, Orléans, Carcassonne, Chenonceau and Kermania-An-Isquit. A fine, solid copy, identically produced.
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