DUVILLIERS, FRANÇOIS. Les Parcs et jardins. Premiére [-Deuxiéme Partie]. Paris: l871-78. 2 vols., large folio, 545 x 365 mm. (21 3/8 x 14 3/8 in.), original publisher's cloth-backed printed blue boards, uncut, minor rubbing and discoloration, front inner hinges cracked, vol.2 slightly shaken in binding, scattered light foxing to first and final leaves of each volume, each vol. with half-title and list of plates, vol. 1 with full-page etched portrait of Duvilliers by H. Valentin and printed dedication to Leopold II, vol. 2 with 2-page list of eminent persons who have been presented with copies, 80 hand-colored lithographic plans of various gardens designed by Duvilliers (each of three double-page plans in vol. 2 count as two numbers), all after Duvilliers, printed by Impr. C. Chardon, each plate with 2- to 6-page accompanying letterpress descriptive text. (2)
DUVILLIERS, FRANÇOIS. Les Parcs et jardins. Premiére [-Deuxiéme Partie]. Paris: l871-78. 2 vols., large folio, 545 x 365 mm. (21 3/8 x 14 3/8 in.), original publisher's cloth-backed printed blue boards, uncut, minor rubbing and discoloration, front inner hinges cracked, vol.2 slightly shaken in binding, scattered light foxing to first and final leaves of each volume, each vol. with half-title and list of plates, vol. 1 with full-page etched portrait of Duvilliers by H. Valentin and printed dedication to Leopold II, vol. 2 with 2-page list of eminent persons who have been presented with copies, 80 hand-colored lithographic plans of various gardens designed by Duvilliers (each of three double-page plans in vol. 2 count as two numbers), all after Duvilliers, printed by Impr. C. Chardon, each plate with 2- to 6-page accompanying letterpress descriptive text. (2)
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