HUGUES, Pierre-François (called D'HANRCARVILLE, 17919-1805). Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities. Naples: [Francesco Morelli], 1766-1767. 4 volumes, large 2° (476 x 352mm). Titles and text in English and French. 8 hand-coloured engraved titles, 5 engraved dedication leaves, 437 engraved plates, 183 hand-coloured (61 of these double-page, 12 folding), 32 engraved head- and tail-pieces, 40 initials, the 10 in vol. IV printed in colours, all after Giuseppe Bracci Giovanni Battista Nolli Edmond Beaulieu and others. Contemporary French red morocco gilt by DEROME LE JEUNE, covers with triple-fillet border, spine decorated in eight compartments with raised bands, roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, with binder's ticket mounted at foot of French title to vol. I (very light scuffing to extremities). A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS 'EDITION SPLENDIDE ET DE GRANDE LUXE' (Cohen/de Ricci), printed in only 500 copies and recording the first collection of vases formed between 1764 and 1772 by Sir William Hamilton Sir William, British ambassador to the kingdom of Naples, employed D'Hancarville as his agent and sold the entire collection to the British Museum in 1772. The publication was of the greatest influence in the development of the neo-classical movement in French and English design. Berlin Kat. 890; Blackmer 345 (with 435 plates only); Cohen/de Ricci 474; cf. Cicognara 2490 (Florence edition of 1801-1808 only). (4)
HUGUES, Pierre-François (called D'HANRCARVILLE, 17919-1805). Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities. Naples: [Francesco Morelli], 1766-1767. 4 volumes, large 2° (476 x 352mm). Titles and text in English and French. 8 hand-coloured engraved titles, 5 engraved dedication leaves, 437 engraved plates, 183 hand-coloured (61 of these double-page, 12 folding), 32 engraved head- and tail-pieces, 40 initials, the 10 in vol. IV printed in colours, all after Giuseppe Bracci Giovanni Battista Nolli Edmond Beaulieu and others. Contemporary French red morocco gilt by DEROME LE JEUNE, covers with triple-fillet border, spine decorated in eight compartments with raised bands, roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, with binder's ticket mounted at foot of French title to vol. I (very light scuffing to extremities). A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS 'EDITION SPLENDIDE ET DE GRANDE LUXE' (Cohen/de Ricci), printed in only 500 copies and recording the first collection of vases formed between 1764 and 1772 by Sir William Hamilton Sir William, British ambassador to the kingdom of Naples, employed D'Hancarville as his agent and sold the entire collection to the British Museum in 1772. The publication was of the greatest influence in the development of the neo-classical movement in French and English design. Berlin Kat. 890; Blackmer 345 (with 435 plates only); Cohen/de Ricci 474; cf. Cicognara 2490 (Florence edition of 1801-1808 only). (4)
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