(PORTRAITS) Sergent Marceau Antoine Francois Portraits des G

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(PORTRAITS.) Sergent-Marceau, Antoine-Francois. Portraits des Grands Hommes, Femmes Illustres, et Sujets Mémorables de France. Engraved and aquatint title in sepia, engraved dedication, and 192 aquatint plates after Sergent and others, printed in colors. 3 volumes. 4to, 12 3/4x9 1/4 inches, fine period calf, volumes 1 and 2 expertly rebacked to style; instances of a small separation at the platemark of a few plates, a crisp and clean copy. Housed in a custom fleece-lined cloth box. Paris: Blin, [1786-92]

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"it is, as colour-printing, an harmonious and excellent achievement" (franklin). A superb collection of important figures of France from Charlemagne to Joan of Arc to Nicolas Poussin; each character with an oval portrait plate followed by a notable achievement of that person's life illustrated and described. Franklin, A Catalogue of Early Colour Printing, page 53; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 86.