Recueil D'Antiquités Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques Et Romaines. Tome Premier. Nouvelle Edition.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2195

Imprint

A Paris,: Chez Desaint & Saillant, rue S. Jean de Beauvais, vis-à-vis le Collége,, M. DCC. LXI.

Physical Description

[viii], xix, [i], 348 p., frontis., 107 pl.; 249 mm. (Quarto).

Contents

[Half-t., frontis. (= add. engr. t.pl.), t.p., dedic.] - Avertissement - Explication Des Vignettes Et Des Culs-De-Lampes - [Text and pl.] - Table Des Matieres.

Responsibility Note

The author is not named on the title page, but the work is dedicated to the Académie Royale Des Inscriptions Et Belles Lettres (afterwards part of the Institut de France) by Caylus.

The frontispiece (which forms an added, engraved title-plate) is not signed but is stated in the 'Explication Des Vignettes ...' to represent 'le fond de mon jardin. ... Il a été dessiné & pensé par M. Bouchardon.' The plates are not signed.

References

See note on the first edition (1752-67).

Summary Note

The first edition of this volume had been published in 1752 - the first volume of a seven-volume set published between 1752 and 1767.

Provenance

Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).

Binding Note

18th-century marbled calf; rebacked in 20th century in 18th-century style, brown spine-label lettered 'Recueil D'Antiqui'.

Subject

Antiquities, Egyptian - Antiquities, Etruscan - Antiquities, Greek - Antiquities, Roman - Early works to 1800
Art history - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

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