Briseux (Charles-Etienne) Traité du Beau essentiel dans les Arts, appliqué particulierement applique particulierement a l'architecture, 2 vol., first edition, Paris, The Author & Chereau, 1752.

Briseux (Charles-Etienne) Traité du Beau essentiel dans les Arts, appliqué particulierement applique particulierement a l'architecture et demontre physiquement et par l'experience à l'architecture et démontré physiquement et par l'expérience, first edition, engraved throughout, portrait frontispiece, 2 titles within decorative borders, 138 plates, some double-page or folding, including pictorial divisional titles, blank f. following p.44, privilege f. at end of vol.2, a few ff. with outer edge uncut, spotting and mostly light staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with red leather labels, some gilt restored, corners worn, rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 2403; Fowler 69], 4to, Paris, The Author & Chereau, 1752.

⁂ 'A fine example of an entirely engraved book' (Fowler).