Lot no. 228
COTMAN (John Sell). Les Antiquités monumentales de la Normandie dessinées et gravées par John Cotman, avec des notes historiques et descriptives par Paul Louisy, précédées d'une introduction par M. de Beaurepaire, archiviste du département de la Seine-inférieure. Paris, Librairie centrale des beaux arts, A. Lévy, 1881.
Large folio (49.5 x 38 cm) in black half-chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons, gilt title, gilt head (contemporary binding).
First edition of the French translation illustrated with 101 beautiful plates drawn and engraved by John Cotman, under serpents. Pl. 21-22, 49-50, 51-52, 73-74, 92-93 and 99 are on double pages.
Scarce marginal foxing, otherwise a very fine copy, entirely mounted on mitre.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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