[LEFEBVRE-DURUFLÉ, Noël-Jacques (1792-1877).] Excursion sur les côtes et dans les ports de Normandie. Paris: Jules Didot ainé for J. F. Ostervald, [1823-1825]. Deluxe issue – large-paper, richly coloured, and extra-illustrated with an additional plate of Le Havre – of the first complete edition of a pictorial survey of northern France. Originally issued in parts, the first 3 under the title Voyage pittoresque dans les ports et sur les côtes de France , the work was available in five forms, plain; before letters; before letters on india paper; coloured; coloured, large paper, each correspondingly more expensive. The deluxe issue cost almost 4 times the plain one. The present copy, like that described in Abbey, has an additional plate of ‘Havre, vue de la rade’ which is not listed in the table and is not present in most copies. As Abbey notes, although the book was published in Paris for the French market, Osterwald employed two English artists and four English engravers, reflecting the high reputation enjoyed by the English in this field at the time. Abbey Travel 92; Barbier II, 367; Brunet II, 1130. Folio (558 x 395mm). Title, descriptions, table of contents, 41 aquatint views printed in colour and finished by hand by Thales and Newton Fielding G. Reeve, Paul Legrand, Salathé, Himely and Hegui after Luttringshausen, Bonington, Ronmy, Noël, Francia, Copley Fielding Grenier, Gilbert, Ulrich, Regnier and Léopold Leprince, plates printed on paper watermarked J.Whatman / J. Whatman Turkey Mill dated 1820-23 or without watermark (text leaves very lightly spotted, pl. 8 with light marginal smudges). Modern red morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt-tooled to a 19th-century style.
[LEFEBVRE-DURUFLÉ, Noël-Jacques (1792-1877).] Excursion sur les côtes et dans les ports de Normandie. Paris: Jules Didot ainé for J. F. Ostervald, [1823-1825]. Deluxe issue – large-paper, richly coloured, and extra-illustrated with an additional plate of Le Havre – of the first complete edition of a pictorial survey of northern France. Originally issued in parts, the first 3 under the title Voyage pittoresque dans les ports et sur les côtes de France , the work was available in five forms, plain; before letters; before letters on india paper; coloured; coloured, large paper, each correspondingly more expensive. The deluxe issue cost almost 4 times the plain one. The present copy, like that described in Abbey, has an additional plate of ‘Havre, vue de la rade’ which is not listed in the table and is not present in most copies. As Abbey notes, although the book was published in Paris for the French market, Osterwald employed two English artists and four English engravers, reflecting the high reputation enjoyed by the English in this field at the time. Abbey Travel 92; Barbier II, 367; Brunet II, 1130. Folio (558 x 395mm). Title, descriptions, table of contents, 41 aquatint views printed in colour and finished by hand by Thales and Newton Fielding G. Reeve, Paul Legrand, Salathé, Himely and Hegui after Luttringshausen, Bonington, Ronmy, Noël, Francia, Copley Fielding Grenier, Gilbert, Ulrich, Regnier and Léopold Leprince, plates printed on paper watermarked J.Whatman / J. Whatman Turkey Mill dated 1820-23 or without watermark (text leaves very lightly spotted, pl. 8 with light marginal smudges). Modern red morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt-tooled to a 19th-century style.
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