Album of the restored castle of Blois and the castles of Chambord, Chenonceaux, Chaumont & Amboise. Blois, Chez l'Arthur Prévost, 1851. Oblong folio, green half-chagrin, spine decorated, speckled edges (Binding of the time).
Album illustrated with 18 beautiful lithographed plates in black on a tinted background: a title and the coat of arms of the city of Blois engraved after Désiré Raimbault, and 16 plates of views drawn after nature and engraved on lithographic stone by Jules Monthelier.
Archaeological and artistic text by Alphonse Baillargé, historical notes on the castles by Joseph Walsh.
A nice copy, well bound, with a signed letter from Joseph Walsh dated 1851 on one of the endpapers.
Some foxing to a few plates.
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