KRAFFT, J[ean]. -CH[arles]. Modèles De Dessin Linéaire Appliques A L'Architecture Antique Et Moderne Ou Recueil D'Ornements, De Moulures, De Profiles. tirés de Monuments antiques d'Athènes, de Rome, de Balbec, de Palmyre, etc. OEuvres des Architectes classiques, Vignola, Palladio, Scamozzi ... et autres célèbres Artistes de Siècle de la Renaissance. Dessines par J. CH. Krafft, architecte, et graves au trait par Boulay et Johannot. Paris: Bance Ainé, B. Bance, Fils Et Successeur, [, n.d., c. 1820].
Folio (464 x 310), Late nineteenth-century dark green gilt-ruled half morocco over cloth covered boards, rebacked preserving the original backstrip, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; half-title, title-page, 76 engraved plates; the upper corner of pl. 76 torn with small loss, not affecting the image, ex-libris the National Art Library V&A, with its ink stamp to the upper corner of the title-page and its de-accession ink stamp to the verso of the same, the small, neat ink stamp of the National Art Library to the verso of the plates, very light age toning to the margins of the plates, otherwise a clean copy. Binding a little rubbed and worn, gilt lettering a little dulled.
First edition. Austrian-born Jean-Charles Krafft (1764-1833) is remembered for his detailed documentation of “the most elegant” French neoclassical buildings.
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