RECUEIL DES DESSINS D'ORNAMENTS D'ARCHITECTURE DE LA MANUFACTURE.

(TRADE CATALOGUE)  BEUNAT, Joseph.  RECUEIL DES DESSINS D'ORNAMENTS D'ARCHITECTURE DE LA MANUFACTURE.

(Paris: Joseph Beunat, circa 1813). Small folio. Later straight-grained quarter-calf, marbled boards. 86 engraved plates, including the engraved title page.

The Berlin Catalogue lists a  copy dated 1812 with only seventy-two plates, fourteen fewer than ours.  [Berlin Catalogue, 1387.]  Joseph Beunat was the international distribution of Percier and Fontaine Empire Style decorations throughout Europe.  The catalogue illustrates over seven hundred decorative designs of architectural trims and interior elements including rosettes and candelabra.  Many of these motifs decorate Empire furntiure of the period.  There are also room designs complete with floor plans.  Three additional plates from another work, showing rooms with Empire style decorations in situ, are bound in at the end..  Some marginal finger soiling, else very good.

 

$2,850.00