Lot 266: MARIETTE (JEAN)

L'architecture françoise ou recueil des plans, elevations, coupes et profils des eglises, palais, hôtels, & maisons particulieres de Paris, & des chateaux & maisons de campagne ou de plaisance des environs, & de plusieurs autres endroits de France, 2 vol., engraved titles (with paste-over volume slips), 491 engraved plates (75 double-page) by Le Pautre, Lucas, Blondel, Herisset, and others, contemporary mottled calf gilt, joints slightly cracked at extremities, Bradby Hall bookplate, folio, Paris, Jean Mariette, 1727

A collection of plates, bound in a contemporary calf binding, from Mariette's famous record of French architecture and interior decoration covering the period from Marot to the date of publication. According to Millard it "became an essential reference work for architects of the later eighteenth century". The work was originally published in four volumes.