Main entry:

Laborde, Alexandre, comte de, 1773-1842, author.

Title & Author:

Versailles : ancien et moderne / par le comte Alexandre de Laborde ...

Publication:

Paris : imprimerie Schneider et Langrand, rue d'Erfurth, 1, 1841.

Description:

516 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, plans, coats of arms ; 27 cm

Notes:
Large paper edition.
Wood engraved frontispiece; wood engraved illustrations throughout text and one map, "Routes de Paris a Versailles."
"Imprimerie Scheider et Langrand, rue d'Erfurth, 1"--Colophon
Edition is the same as that published by A. Everat in 1839. Cf. Carteret; Vicaire.
Over 800 engravings, some full-page, by Cherrier, Orrin Smith, Adolphe Best, and others, after Français, Aubry, Trimolet, Daubigny, Lacoste, Daumier, and others.
Four frames exist within the text for engravings that are lacking: Neuvième salle des maréchaux (p. 316); Dixième salle des maréchaux (p. 317); Septième salle (p. 341); Suite de Napoléon, salle n. 6 du plan (p. 419).
Some text in double column.
RBC copy: Binding: Green morocco gilt with double fillet and oranmental garland on covers; pink moiré endpapers; 26 cm. Bookplate on front pastedown: Russian imperial ex-libris. Another bookplate on front flyleaf verso: Peter & Kathleen Wick. Ms. notes of previous owner on front flyleaf verso. Items laid in by previous owner placed on file.
NcU
Includes bibliographical references.
Carteret, L. Trésor, 1801-1875, III, 346-347
Vicaire, G. Livres du 19. s., IV, 756-757
Brivois, J. Ouvrages illustrés du 19.s., p. 226
Library of Peter A. Wick [catalog], 167
In French, with some Greek.

Summary:

First published in 1839, according to Ernest de Ganay, no. 229. Laborde is best known as an author for his folio "Description des nouveaux jardins de la France" (1808).

Subject:

Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Description and travel.
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Descriptions et voyages.
Palaces France Versailles.
Palais France Versailles.
Buildings
Courts and courtiers
Palaces
Versailles (France) Description and travel.
Versailles (France) History.
Versailles (France) Buildings, structures, etc.
Versailles (France) Court and courtiers.
France Versailles
Versailles (France)

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works France 19th century.
Bookplates (Provenance)

Added entries:

Wick, Peter A., former owner
Wick, Kathleen, former owner
Schneider et Langrand, publisher, printer.
France Paris.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 78272
Call No.: ID:86-B14464
Status: Available