Title leaf and 110 double-page lithograph plates. (Folio) 49x36 cm. (19x14¼") later half leather and cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
Jean Nicolas Louis Durand (1760–1834) was a French author, teacher and architect. He was an important figure in Neoclassicism, and his system of design using simple modular elements anticipated modern industrialized building components. Having spent periods working for the architect Étienne-Louis Boullée and the civil engineer Jean-Rodolphe Perronet. In 1795 he became a Professor of Architecture at the École Polytechnique.
Condition:
Light wear to binding; repairs to a few leaves at front and rear; stain at top edge of plates, reducing in size from the start to plate 21, into images on a few plates; a few plates with short marginal tears, final plate lacking a small section; still about very good.