Monsieur B. is Jacques François Blondel--Quérard, J.M. France littéraire.

"Dédié aux amateurs des beaux arts, en 1767."

Title page included in foliation. Plate 31 is also a title page with title: Recueil des plus beaux edifices anciens et modernes ... Dédié aux amateurs des beaux arts, en 1761 et renouvellé en 1766. Paris : Chés Petit.

Numerous errors in foliation: plate [39] numbered 40-13, plate [41] numbered 78-39, plate [42] is numbered 79, plate [43] is numbered 79, plate [44] is numbered 42-59, plate [45] is numbered 59, plate [46] is numbered 60 and 41, plate [47] is numbered 44. Plates continue in numbered sequence from 44-104.

Includes illustrations by Aveline, Babel, Blondel, Canuc, Charpentier, Chereau, Chedel, Cochin, Cuvilliés, Huquier, La Chausee, Loyer, Mansart, Martinet, Marvi, Messonier, Müller, Opponort, Pannini, Piranesi, Poulleau, Poulot, Soubeyran and Vasseur and Sir Christopher Wren. Some plates are unsigned.

LC copy imperfect: title page and plate [46] mutilated but mended with some loss of text.

NUC pre-1956 NV 0157209 (vol. 637, page 242)