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100 1 # $a Viardot
245 1 0 $a Bibliothèque Des Merveilles - Les Merveilles De la Peinture Par Louis Viardot - Première Série Contenant 20 Vignettes Sur Bois Par Paquier (Deuxième Série Ouvrage Illustré De 12 Vignettes Par Paquier - Deuxième Édition)
246 3 # $a Merveilles De la Peinture
260 # # $a Paris $b Librairie De L. Hachette Et Cie Boulevard Saint-Germain, No 77 - $c 1868 (- 1872) Droits de propriété et de traduction réservés.
300 # # $a 2 vols.; $c 180 mm. (Octavo.)
500 # # $a Vol. I: [4], 328[i.e. 310], [2] p., [12] pl.: [8] illus. (Nine of the 12 pl. have been counted in the pagination, as two pages each.) - Vol. II: [4], 343 [i.e. 319], [5] p., [12] pl. (All 12 pl. have been counted in the pagination, as two pages each. The plates in this volume also carry no numbers, but are numbered 1-12 in ' Table Des Planches'.)
505 0 # $a Vol. I: [Half-t., frontis. (= pl.1), t.p.] - Préface - [Text and plates] - Table Des Gravures - Table Des Matières; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text and plates] - Table Des Planches - Table Des Matières; [colophon].
508 # # $a All but one plates in both volumes and all in-text illustrations in Vol. I are signed as drawn by A. Paquier. Many carry also the name of the source-artist, and most that of the engraver - Ettling, L. Chapon, A. Gusman, Pannemaker, H. Koch, J. Ansseau, J. Robert, G. Laplante.

The printer is named on the half-title versos and in the colophons: 'Paris. - Imp. Simon Baçon Et Comp., Rue D'Erfurth, 1.'
520 2 # $a The second series was translated into English as Wonders of European art (1870). The work was translated into English as A brief history of the painters of all schools (1877).
561 # # $a The versos of the front loose endpapers are inscribed in pencil 'S:A:H', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
563 # # $a 19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; black morocco spine labels lettered 'Viardot - Merveilles de La Peinture' and 'Tome I (II)'.
653 # # $a Painting - Painters - Europe - History
655 # 0 $a Art history - Biography - France - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - France - 19th century
700 1 # $a Paquier $e draughtsman
710 2 # $a L. Hachette et Compagnie (Paris) $e publisher