Accession number
PML 195955
Creator
Barbier, Edme-Louis, active 1815-1854.
Published
Paris : Typographie Plon frères, [1853]
Description
iii, 49 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folding) : ill., plan ; 28 cm
Notes
Proposal to erect a museum complex along the Champs-Elyées to celebrate the imperial ambitions of Napoleon III as well as French achievements in arts, literature, science, and colonial aggrandizement; illustrated with a folding plan of the complex and a
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt with Napoleonic emblems, including a semé of bees and a sunburst enclosing a crowned initial N; by V.A. Despierres.
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscription on t.p. from the author to the emperor's binder, V.A. Despierres.
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