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DEROY, Isidore.

Les Rives de la Seine

Les Rives de la Seine

dessinées d'après nature.

Stock Code 114166

Paris, Charles Motte, 1831

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A rare work showing landscapes and cities on the banks of the Seine. One of the few to be meticulously hand-coloured. With views of Le Havre, Harfleur, Honfleur, Tancarville, Caudebec, La Bouille, Rouen, Elbeuf, Vernon, Mantes, Meulan, Triel, and Paris (Tuileries, Pont-neuf, Louvre).

Isidore Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) was a prolific watercolourist and lithographer, primarily of the countryside of France.

First edition; 3 parts in 1 vol., landscape folio (28 x 37 cm); complete with 36 hand-coloured lithograph plates on China paper by C. Motte after Deroy, lithographed map, hand-coloured lithograph title, each plate discreet blind stamped by C. Motte, with hand-coloured lithographed original wrappers of the three parts bound in, bookplate to front pastedown, plates clean and bright; later half cloth, marbled boards, contemporary gilt morocco label to spine, edges a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy.

Bibliothèque Mercier 1230.

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Provenance: Victor Mercier (bibliophile, 1853-1932) (bookplate)

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