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LAMOUR (Jean). Recueil des ouvrages en serrurerie, que Stanislas le Bien-faisant, roy de Pologne, duc de Lorraine et de Bar, a fait poser sur la Place Royale de Nancy, à la gloire de Louis le Bien-aimé... avec un Discours sur l'art de serrurerie... Se vend à Nancy, chez l'auteur, [1768]. In-folio (59 x 45 cm.), modern binding, tan half-chagrin with corners, 5-ribbed spine, red basane title page (skillfully restored tear and slight wetness in margin of title, some slight soiling and margins a little yellowed). Unquestionably the finest book of ironwork ever published, describing and highlighting a major work of 18th-century decorative art: the ornament created by Jean Lamour (1698-1779) for the buildings of Nancy's majestic Place Royale, now Place Stanislas. First edition, comprising an engraved title leaf in a frame; an engraved dedication leaf illustrated with a vignette showing King Stanislas visiting the iron workshop; 10 pages of text including the author's Préliminaire, an explanation of the plates and the privilege, headed by an engraved vignette after Girardet featuring a medallion portrait of Stanislas; the illustration comprises 20 engraved plates, the first of which in 3 folding panels, and the penultimate with a folding panel. The plates were numbered in ink at the time, from 8 to 28, each figure being counted, the first plate without a number (collation in accordance with the BnF copy FRBNF30730370, which mentions "28 plates"). Some plates, as always, bear handwritten captions. A carefully prepared copy. (Berlin Kat., 1365; Cohen, 596).

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LAMOUR (Jean). Recueil des ouvrages en serrurerie, que Stanislas le Bien-faisant, roy de Pologne, duc de Lorraine et de Bar, a fait poser sur la Place Royale de Nancy, à la gloire de Louis le Bien-aimé... avec un Discours sur l'art de serrurerie... Se vend à Nancy, chez l'auteur, [1768]. In-folio (59 x 45 cm.), modern binding, tan half-chagrin with corners, 5-ribbed spine, red basane title page (skillfully restored tear and slight wetness in margin of title, some slight soiling and margins a little yellowed). Unquestionably the finest book of ironwork ever published, describing and highlighting a major work of 18th-century decorative art: the ornament created by Jean Lamour (1698-1779) for the buildings of Nancy's majestic Place Royale, now Place Stanislas. First edition, comprising an engraved title leaf in a frame; an engraved dedication leaf illustrated with a vignette showing King Stanislas visiting the iron workshop; 10 pages of text including the author's Préliminaire, an explanation of the plates and the privilege, headed by an engraved vignette after Girardet featuring a medallion portrait of Stanislas; the illustration comprises 20 engraved plates, the first of which in 3 folding panels, and the penultimate with a folding panel. The plates were numbered in ink at the time, from 8 to 28, each figure being counted, the first plate without a number (collation in accordance with the BnF copy FRBNF30730370, which mentions "28 plates"). Some plates, as always, bear handwritten captions. A carefully prepared copy. (Berlin Kat., 1365; Cohen, 596).

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