‎BRAULT Élie - AL. Du BOIS :‎
‎Les Architectes par leurs oeuvres. Ouvrage rédigé sur les manuscrits de feu Al. Du Bois (de l'École polytechnique) Architecte du Gouvernement. 3 vols.‎

‎13. Paris, Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, s.d. (ca. 1880-1890), 3 volumes large in-8°, each vol. ca. 400 pp with numerous plates (mostly architects' portraits). Bound in three uniform modern red cloth bindings, with leather title label on spines, some slight foxing at some pages but a nice set. This is a rare end of 19th century French history of western architecture. Volume I deals with classical, mediaeval and early renaissance , volume II with French renaissance, XVII and Roccoco architecture. Volume III deals with Classical (18th) and 19th-century architecture. Especially this third volume is very interesting for its wealth of information on 19th-century (French) architecture. The work contains a bibliography and also an extensive index of architect's names, over 1500 architects are mentioned, nearly all born after 1750. Text in French.‎

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