Broderie historique de Bayeux attribuée à la Reine Mathilde représentant la Conquête de l'Angleterre par Guillaume le Conquérant [from "Description de la Tapisserie conservée à la cathédrale de Bayeux, par Smart Le Thieullier..."]
[Caen]: [Mancel], [1824]. Original; not a reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth/small boards. No lettering or labels. Original decorative end papers bound in, but covers are not. No narrative text. There is NO publication or other identifying information in this volume, except for the images and the lithographer's name. Content consists of eight folded bw lithographs, each with three panels of the tapestry pictured, in consecutive order. The panels are approximately 11.25 x 2 inches. (The top two panels are just over 2 inches tall, and the bottom one is just under 2 inches tall on some pages; on other pages, all three panels are the same 2-inch height.) Printed under the bottom panel on each page is, "Lith. de G. Engelmann." The 8 plates are numbered, but the panels are not. Following the plates, there are four bw lithographic maps, folded. They are of England; Scotland/Ireland; La Gaule (France); and Northern Europe/Europe. There is no lithographer's name on any of them. Obviously, all plates were detached from a larger volume and bound into this single copy. I believe these to be from the Le Thieullier title published in 1824. NOTE: The book from which these appear to have been excised also included 80 pages of textual commentary, which is missing here. This volume is images only. All plates and maps are free of marks, but most have some degree of foxing (mostly to margins but some to the images). The plates have no tears, but two of the maps each have one small tear (one at the fore edge; one at the hinge fold). Content is very securely bound in. There are several blank pages to the back of the book. Museum ex-lib. copy with stamp on ORIGINAL end paper verso; deactivated bar code inside back cover. No marks to images. Item #162392
Godefroy Engelmann was a 19th-century Franco-German lithographer and chromolithographer. The Le Thieullier publication appears to use the same engravings used by Ducarel in his 1767 publication, and those were originally published by M. Lancelot in 1733 from drawings done by Antonine Benoît in 1729. Engelmann's lithographs match those, except there are no plate/panel numbers, whereas the matching image on Wikimedia from the Le Thieullier edition carries a printed "Pl. XXXV." marking. Perhaps different copies were done by different lithographers. This is a complete lithographic reproduction of the famous Bayeux Tapestry, or Bayeux Embroidery, an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long and 50 centimetres (20 in) tall, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. Since this is a volume of images only, and the text is not included, the plates would be ideal for framing in sequence.
OCLC: 9653410
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