Essai Sur L'Architecture Des Arabes Et Des Mores, En Espagne, En Sicile, Et En Barbarie, Par Girault De Prangey.

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/4800

Author

Imprint

Paris,: A. Hauser, Boulevard Des Italiens, 11; Brockhaus Et Avenarius, Rue Richelieu, 60., 1841.

Physical Description

[4], xii, 1-208, xxviii, [56], [209-]210 p., 28 pl.; 258 mm. (Quarto.)

Contents

[Half-t., t.p.] - [Note] - Atlas. Monuments Arabes Et Moresques De Cordoue, Séville Et Grenade. Liste Des Planches - Introduction - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Appendice'] - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Essai Sur L'Architecture Des Arabes ... Planches - Explication Des Planches'] - [Plates, and explanatory texts] - Table; Liste Des Planches.

Responsibility Note

The plates are signed as drawn by Girault de Prangey, apart from one signed as drawn by Chapuy and one unsigned by a draughtsman. All are signed as lithographed by Bachelier, Asselineau, Dumouza, Bouillon, Benoist, Peyre, Bulton or Wyld. They carry the printers' imprint of 'Im. Lemercier Benard et C.'

The text printer is named on the verso of the half-title: 'Typographie Lacrampe Et Compagnie, Rue Damiette, 2.'

Summary Note

Two plates are printed in color.

Binding Note

19th-century half green morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Prangey - Architecture Des Arabes Et Mores'.

Subject

Architecture - Architecture, Arab - Public buildings - Spain - Italy - Sicily - North Africa - History
Art history - France - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Chromolithographs - Color printing - France - 19th century

Contributors

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, draughtsman
Nicolas Chapuy, draughtsman
Léon-Auguste Asselineau, lithographer
J. L. Benoist, lithographer
William Wyld, lithographer