Cauvet, Gilles-Paul (1731-1788) Recueil d'Ornemens
Cauvet, Gilles-Paul (1731-1788)
Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1777.Oversized folio, entirely engraved: title, pictorial dedication, text of the dedication (with head-piece, text in fancy calligraphic italic), and sixty-one leaves of engraved plates, followed by the typographically printed privilege leaf; plate leaves sometimes with one large motif, sometimes several smaller images, consisting of a total of 110 separate images on the sixty-one leaves, plates printed in black, bistre, and sepia-colored inks and executed in a style that resembles the marks of a conte crayon; the last leaf large and folding; bound in full crushed red morocco by Chambolle-Duru, aeg, inner gilt dentelles, gilt and lettered spine, slightly rubbed, generally bright, 21 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.Berlin Kat 483; Cohen de Ricci 208; Millard I 49.
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Cauvet, Gilles-Paul (1731-1788)
Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1777.Oversized folio, entirely engraved: title, pictorial dedication, text of the dedication (with head-piece, text in fancy calligraphic italic), and sixty-one leaves of engraved plates, followed by the typographically printed privilege leaf; plate leaves sometimes with one large motif, sometimes several smaller images, consisting of a total of 110 separate images on the sixty-one leaves, plates printed in black, bistre, and sepia-colored inks and executed in a style that resembles the marks of a conte crayon; the last leaf large and folding; bound in full crushed red morocco by Chambolle-Duru, aeg, inner gilt dentelles, gilt and lettered spine, slightly rubbed, generally bright, 21 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.Berlin Kat 483; Cohen de Ricci 208; Millard I 49.
