Dictionnaire Des Beaux-Arts, Par A.L. Millin, Membre de l'Institut, Conservateur des Médailles, des Antiques et des Pierres gravées de la Bibliothèque impériale, Professeur d'antiquités, etc. etc. Cet ouvrage fait partie de ceux adoptés par le Gouvernement pour la formation des Bibliothèques des Lycées. Tome I. (-III.)

Aubin Louis Millin de Grandmaison

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/3404

Author

Aubin Louis Millin de Grandmaison

Imprint

De L'Imprimerie De Crapelet., A Paris,: Chez Desray, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, no 4., M. DCCC. VI.

Physical Description

3 vols.; 216 mm. (Octavo.)

General Note

Vol. I: vii, [i], 819, [1] p. - Vol. II: [iv], 744 p. - Vol. III: [iv], 826 p.

Vol. I: [Half-title, note, t.p.] - Avertissement; [advertisement] - [Text]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text]. - Vol. III: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text].

References

RIBA, Early printed, 3 (1999), no. 2140, p.1143-4.

Summary Note

Millin was best known for his accounts of the history of architecture in France. His Dictionnaire was in its day the most complete available. It includes references to French, Italian , German and other authorities.

A note on the verso of the half-title of Volume I states that a small number of copies was printed 'sur papier vélin superfin satiné'.

A second edition was published in 1838.

Provenance

Each volume is inscribed in ink on the half-title, 'Bequest of Sr. Aug. W. Callcott'.

Binding Note

19th-century half mottled calf, brown papered boards; red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Millin. Dictionnaire Des Beaux-Arts Tom. I. (-III.)', 'R.A.' and 'Paris 1806'.

Subject

Art - Arts - Fine arts
Vocabulary - France - History
Encyclopedias - Dictionaries - Reference books - France - 19th century

Contributors

Jacques Desray, bookseller, publisher
Charles Crapelet, printer
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA, previous owner, donor