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LEDOT, Aine. (Ed)
Paris Moderne et ses Environs d'apres la Photographie.
As described by Zola, a rare pictorial album of Paris during the Second Empire, the Paris of Jacques Offenbach, urban mass culture, and immense wealth and poverty. Ledot probably compiled albums on-demand and for different markets.
- Published
- Paris: ca 1860's
- Plates
- 45
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: ca 1860's
- Ref
- 204
Crimson cloth-covered boards with crimson leather spine, blind-stamped board, gilt-stamped upper board & spine with five raised bands. Illustrated with 45 attractive hand-coloured lithographs, each one numbered but not sequential, views of Paris (most likely chosen by the first owner and meant as a souvenir album of a visit to the French capital). Boards scuffed and chipped at edges, spine and corners are worn, soiled paper, yellowed at edges some light foxing on a few of the lithographs but mostly clean and bright plates. Bookplate on front pastedown of "N.L. Dann, Outremont, Canada." Coloured plates in order: 1. Vue des Tuileries et du Louvre. 2. Vue Place de la Concorde et des Champs Elysees. 3. La Madeleine. 4. Palais des Tuileries Cote de la Place du Carrousel. 5. Notre Dame Facade Laterale (sud). 6. Chambre des Deputes. 7. Hotel de Ville. 8. Chapelle St. Ferdinand. 9. Arc de Triomph de l'Etoile. 10. Colonne de Juillet. 11. Colonne de la Place Vendome. 12. Place de la Concorde. 13. La Colonne du Chatelet et la Tour St. Jacques. 14. L'Eglise Ste. Clotilde. 15. Dome des Invalides. 16. Ecole Militaire. 17. St. Vincent de Paule. 18. Porte St. Dennis et Porte St. Martin. 19. Vue prise du Pont Neuf. 20. Place du Palais Royal le Pavillion de la Bibliotheque. 21. Place St. German L'Auxerrois. 22. Vue prise du Pont Louis Philippe. 23. Place du Louvre. 24. Le Palais de Justice et la Ste. Chapelle. 25. Le Pantheon. 26. St. Sulpice. 27. Interieur de la Madeleine. 28. La Bourse. 29. Palais du Luxenbourg. 30. Palais Royal. 31. Facade du Palais de L'Industrie. 32. Le Palais de L'Industrie et les Champs Elysees. 33. Bal Mabille. Champs Elysees. 34. Hippodrome. Avenue de l'Imperatrice. 35. Bois de Boulogne. La Cascade et le Kiosque. 36. Concert des Champs Elysees et Palais de L'Industrie. 37. Parc de Monceau - La Colonnade. 38. Grand Trianon. 39. Cour D'Honneur. 40. Cote du Parc. 41. Vue du Chateau. 42. Cour des Adieux. 43. Vue prise de L'Avenue de Maintenon. 44. Vue du Bassin de Latone. 45. Grandes Eaux et Chateau.
