[PARIS]PUGIN, Auguste and HEATH, Charles. Paris and its envi - Lot 49

[PARIS]PUGIN, Auguste and HEATH, Charles. Paris and its environs. Displayed in a series of picturesques views. 204 views and descriptions of Parisian monuments in a Romantic period volume. London, Jenning and Chaplin, s.d. [circa 1830]. Large in-8, half leather, chocolate brown with corners, spine ribbed with gilded garland, gilded fillets around the edges, first cover decorated with romantic scrollwork and gilded title framed in the same taste, gilded edges. 202 pp. - 204 engraved vignettes (unpaginated). In English, a few pages in French. Discoloration of the lower part of the first cover, pp. 1 to 150 browned with some foxing or dampening, rare foxing in the margins towards the end, one of the title pages missing. A handsome British atlas complete with its two parts, featuring 204 notable views of Paris in the second quarter of the 19th century, each with a descriptive sheet. While some later monuments are logically missing, others such as the elephant on Place de la Bastille are described. A fine piece of work, still useful today.