Les Anciennes Tapisseries Historiees, ou Collection des Monumens les Plus Remarquables, de ce Genre, Qui Nous Soient Restes du Moyen-Age, a Partir du XIe Siecle au XVIe Inclusivement, 2 volumes
Paris: L'Editeur de la Galerie D'Armes de Madrid, 1838. Hardcover. Two oversized volumes bound in 3/4 red leather and marble illustrated boards, 5 raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, marble illustrated end pages. Volume 1 has 45 pp of text with bw illustrations followed by color plates numbered 1-6, 1-24, 1-3, 1-3 (#4 missing), 1, 1-4, 1, 1-18. Volume 2 has 36 pp of text with bw illustrations followed by color plates numbered 19-32, 6, 6, 12, 2, 1, 10, 12. Good- (heavy shelfwear to boards, foxing and age toning throughout, blue ink stain along bottom edges extending to borders of pages of volume 1 only, First 12 pp of volume one have damp staining to bottom right corner of pages. Volume 1 is missing plate #4 of the plates of Bayard section. Plates are fairly clean and clear other than the soiling mainly to the borders. Volume 2 has damp staining to bottom corner of all pages up to the 2nd plate. All plates are present in Volume 2.). Item #188919
Text is in French. Printed in a limited edition of 333 copies. Text by Archille Jubinal with engravings by the best artists after drawings by Victor Sansonetti. Contents: Volume 1. Tapisserie de Nancy ; Tapisserie de Bayeux ; Explication de la tapisserie de Bayeux ; Tapisserie de Dijon ; Tapisserie de Bayard ; Tapisseries de Vanenciennes ; Tapisseries de la Chaise-Dieu -- Volume 2. Explication des tapisseries de la Chaise-Dieu ; Tapisseries d'Aulhac et d'Aix ; Tapisseries de Beauvais, tapisserie du Louvre, tapisserie représentant Alexandre, Roi d'Écosse ; Tapisseries de Reims ; Tapisseries de Berne ; Conclusion.
OCLC: 4267488
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