BALDUS EDOUARD Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries Volumes I I

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BALDUS, EDOUARD. Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries. Volumes I, II, and III. Together, 3 volumes. Each illustrated with 100 gravure reproductions of interior and exterior ornamental, and architectural details of both the Louvre and Tuileries, for a total of 300 photogravure plates. Folio, 1/2 morocco and marbled boards; margins of plates moderately foxed; bookplates. Paris: Morel, 1875

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Complete sets of this title are rare.

Volume I: Decorations Interieures Volume II: Decorations Exterieures Volume III: Decorations Exterieures and Interieures.

According to scholar and author Malcolm Daniel, "Baldus first published his own photographs in photogravure form in a publication on the architecture and ornamentation of the Louvre and the Tuileries Palaces issued in installments beginning in 1869. . . a publication that must have seemed ironically timely, for while it was still being issued the Tuilerie Palace and parts of the Louvre were burned down during the 1871 Commune." The Photographs of Edouard Baldus, 95.