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Jean Charles KRAFFT, Recueil des plus jolies maisons de Paris et de ses environs. Deuxième partie, Paris, l'auteur, J.L. Scherff, 1809. 1 vol. in-folio oblong: title, foreword, frontispiece, 89 plates including 7 double num. 1-96 Moderate foxing and creasing to title page and text leaf. Faded octagonal stamp on title page. Original carmine glue paper boards, black title page. A very good copy of this monograph on Krafft's "country" houses. The buildings, often garden "follies", are mostly located and their owners identified. Line engraving, which Krafft was instrumental in popularizing in his works, gives a light, airy rendering, concentrating on proportions and ornamental details. The work of this architect, best known for his graphic work, is complicated to classify because he reused the same plates, sometimes marginally amended, in different publications with slightly different names, thus enabling a wider commercial distribution of his writings. This collection was reprinted several times up to the mid-19th century.

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Jean Charles KRAFFT, Recueil des plus jolies maisons de Paris et de ses environs. Deuxième partie, Paris, l'auteur, J.L. Scherff, 1809. 1 vol. in-folio oblong: title, foreword, frontispiece, 89 plates including 7 double num. 1-96 Moderate foxing and creasing to title page and text leaf. Faded octagonal stamp on title page. Original carmine glue paper boards, black title page. A very good copy of this monograph on Krafft's "country" houses. The buildings, often garden "follies", are mostly located and their owners identified. Line engraving, which Krafft was instrumental in popularizing in his works, gives a light, airy rendering, concentrating on proportions and ornamental details. The work of this architect, best known for his graphic work, is complicated to classify because he reused the same plates, sometimes marginally amended, in different publications with slightly different names, thus enabling a wider commercial distribution of his writings. This collection was reprinted several times up to the mid-19th century.

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Jean Charles KRAFFT, Recueil d'architecture civile, contenant les plans, coupes et élévations des châteaux, maisons de campagne, et habitations rurales situées aux environs de Paris et dans les départemens voisins [Paris, Bance, 1806-1812]1 vol. in small folio format: delivery cover printed on blue paper, cut out and reassembled in the format used as title page, 125 plates, including 6 plates from Dubut's collection, 2 large folding plates counting double and plate 8 in duplicate. The plates have been folded and mounted in a register in which the cut pages have been used as tabs. 7 plates come from another copy and bear a stamp. A few minor flaws Bound in contemporary half parchment, smooth spine with gilt fillets, one title-piece An attractive copy of this work, which appeared in installments starting in 1806 and went through several complete editions during the 19th century, so its composite nature is not surprising. A collection of essentially picturesque constructions (factories, country houses, temples, etc.). Krafft's work follows in Le Rouge's footsteps, offering rich European owners (the text is trilingual) models of exemplary achievements. This collection is particularly interesting because it faithfully portrays a number of buildings that have now disappeared, destroyed by man or, in the case of the most fragile, simply by the passage of time. Krafft makes no secret of his borrowings from Le Rouge, particularly for the Désert de Retz. Among the most famous names are Ledoux, Huvé, Chalgrin, Bélanger and Mandar. And among the sites described, there are as many in and around Paris (Château de Ville d'Avray, Madame Elisabeth's estate) as in England and Germany.