Réimpression de l'Architecture française [...] exécutée sous les auspices du Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts, sous le contrôle de Guadet et Pascal.

4 vol., folio: 498 (of 500) pl. (endpapers sl. brown.).

Publ. half cloth, marbled paper and gilt-titled leather labels on covers, leather labels on flat spines (heads and tails sl. defect.). Good copy, partly unopened.

Rather uncommon monumental new exact impression with ancient types on laid paper by the Imprimerie Nationale of "Architecture françoise, ou Recueil des plans, élévations, coupes et profils des églises, maisons royales, palais, hôtels & édifices les plus considérables de Paris" published by Ch.-A. Jombert in 1752-1756. Ill. with 498 single, double or folding plates reproduced in collotype (of 500 : lacking 268 and 491, + 240, 241 and 242 in double). J.-Fr. Blondel (1705-1774) was an architect and influential teacher, first at his own school of architecture and from 1755 on at the Académie royale d'architecture; he also was appointed architect to Louis XV and he wrote several articles for Diderot-D'Alembert 's "Encyclopédie". "In his clear and rational Architecture françoise [...], he covered the past century and more of French buildings in and near Paris, setting them in their historical context and providing a wealth of detailed information that would otherwise have been lost" (Wikipedia). Each vol. contains notes and supplements by the architects Julien Guadet (1834-1908) and Jean-Louis Pascal (1837-1920).
Ref. Cp. Berlin Kat. 2510. - BnF. - COPAC.