LOT DETAILS

Materials:

engravings, on laid paper

Size Notes:

album; sheets 16.2 x 23.8 cm (and similar)

Description:

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Markings:

watermark Edmond Denise

Condition:

fine and uniform impressions of this very rare series, first states (of three), before the plate numbers, a few plates tricmed on or just within the platemark, others with narrow to thread margins, R.-D. 64 with made-up corners, some other small repairs, generally in very good condition, hinged onto grey support sheets, bound in a 19th-century quarter-morocco binding with patterned boards and marbled end-papers, the artist's name and the title in gilt on the spine

Literature:

Robert-Dumesnil 39-64

Provenance:

A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris; his sale, Vautier & Clément, Paris, 26 March 1862, lot 182 (FF 131).