158 - Charles PERCIER and Pierre-François-Léonard FONTAINE. A Selection of the Most Famous Country Houses in Rome and Its Environs… Paris, Jules Didot Aîné, 1824. Folio, red half-shagreen, spine with 4 raised bands (contemporary binding).

Charles PERCIER and Pierre-François-Léonard FONTAINE. A Selection of the Most Famous Country Houses in Rome and Its Environs… Paris, Jules Didot Aîné, 1824. Folio, red half-shagreen, spine with 4 raised bands (contemporary binding). Brunet, IV-489 /// (1f.)-72, 77 plates. Second edition, illustrated with 18 engravings in the text and 77 copperplate plates outside the text, based on Percier and Fontaine and engraved by Gounod, Baltard, Filbot, Bonnard, Niquet, Duparc… The plates are numbered 1 through 75 (the last one incorrectly numbered 76), with a plate 39 bis and a plate 40 bis. Plate 40 bis is missing here, as is often the case, but this copy includes an unnumbered plate not listed in the table of plates. The first edition was published by the same publisher in 1809–1813 and contained 65 plates. Spine rubbed and covers damaged. Title page restored; slight, insignificant foxing.