Collectible - Acceptable
Paris: L'Academie Francaise, 1949. No additional printings. Elephant folio, loose prints laid into folder with flexible green cloth spine and brown stiff paper boards with green cloth corners. Title label pasted to front board. Unpaginated. French. 95 B/W heliogravures. An incomplete reading copy. Folder is dampstained and warped, and paper is stained and chipped. Several shallow scrapes to boards. Ties intended to tie the folder closed (one each at top and bottom edges, two at fore edge) are broken and much of the ribbon is lacking. Of the interior, the foreword has been most affected by water, but the plates are damp warped to top edge throughout. Other than several small stains, the pages are clean and only very lightly toned and edge-frayed, generally very good. This copy lacks plates #26 - Notre-Dame de Paris, #83 - Fragment de Fresque (Cathedrale de Puy), #84 - Pieta d'Avignon, # 85 - Jean Fouquet - Portrait de Charles VII, #86 - Le Maitre de Moulins - Nativite, #87 - Grunewald - La Vierge et l'Enfant, #88 - Jean Clouet - Francois I, #89 - Jacques Callot - Le Siege de l'Ile de Re (Fragment), #90 - Georges de la Tour - L'Adoration des Bergers, #91 - Claude Gellee dit Le Lorrain - Ulysse remet Chryseis a son pere, #92 - Nicolas Poussin - Les Bergers d'Arcadie, #93 - Louis le Nain - Repas de Paysans, #94 - Antoine Watteau - L'Amour au Theatre Francais, #95 - Jean-Baptiste Chardin - L'Enfant au Toton, #96 - Dominique Ingres - Portrait de Monsieur Riviere, #97 - Eugene Delacroix - Femmes d'Alger, #98 - Camille Corot - Vue du Forum Romain, #99 - Auguste Renoir - La Loge, and #100 - Claude Monet - Voilier d'Argenteuil; and contains three copies each of plates #76 - La Tour Eiffel, #77 - Palais de Chaillot, #78 - Francois Rude - La Marseillaise, #79 - Jean-Baptise Carpeaux - La Danse, #80 - Auguste Rodin - Le Bourgeois de Calais, #81 - Francois Pompon - L'Ours Blanc, and #82 - Antoine Bourdelle - La Vierge d'Alsace. Pocket to inside of front board is empty. [architecture, sculpture, rome, renaissance] Inquire if you need further information.
