Accession number
PML 15516
Creator
Campion, Joseph Alex, active 1790.
Published
À Paris : Chez Lamy, librarie, 1792.
Credit line
Purchased in 1907.
Notes
Imprint on plates: A Paris, Chez les Campions.
Title-page identical with that of volume of views of Paris by Janinet; Henri Cohen in his "Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle" states that the t.p. for this work is "semblable", but gives imprint as "A Paris, Chez les Campions, s. d. (vers 1789)."
Plate no. 109 dated 14 July 1789.
Collections of aquatints by Campion, Guyot, Roger and others after drawings by Testart, Sergent, Pernet and Demachy.
The volume contains 2 unnumbered plates at end. The nos. one, five and six are used twice for different plates; plates 6, 23, 32 and 51 are represented in 2 versions, while plate 52 and one version of plate 32 are also shown in 2 different states.
Title-page identical with that of volume of views of Paris by Janinet; Henri Cohen in his "Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle" states that the t.p. for this work is "semblable", but gives imprint as "A Paris, Chez les Campions, s. d. (vers 1789)."
Plate no. 109 dated 14 July 1789.
Collections of aquatints by Campion, Guyot, Roger and others after drawings by Testart, Sergent, Pernet and Demachy.
The volume contains 2 unnumbered plates at end. The nos. one, five and six are used twice for different plates; plates 6, 23, 32 and 51 are represented in 2 versions, while plate 52 and one version of plate 32 are also shown in 2 different states.
Description
1 preliminary leaf, 110 [i.e. 121] : color plates ; 20 cm
Provenance
E.W.V. Salisbury (d. 1807), of Jesus College, Oxford, Nov. 1788 [sic], signature and bookplate; Pierpont Morgan Library.
Binding
Mottled calf.
Classification
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