Charles MOREAU, Fragments et ornements d'architecture,... Lot 116

Charles MOREAU, Fragments et ornements d'architecture, dessinés à Rome d'après l'Antique, Paris, Vilquin, [1806] 1 vol. in-plano: title (printed with the matrix of the delivery covers), 1f. "preliminary discourse, 36 pencil-engraved plates. Minor foxing. Bound in contemporary brown half calf, spine restored, corners worn. Fine copy, rare First edition of this work, intended as a complement to Desgodetz's work, published 120 years earlier, but republished in 1749. Published in issues of six folio plates, it features architectural details and fragments, as well as bowls, tripods, vases, altars, candelabras and furniture. As this work was specially designed for educational purposes, each figure is numbered, and notes indicate the places from which the fragments were taken, as well as the monuments to which they belonged. The prospectus for this work has survived in the British Library: it emphasizes that the plates in the book are on the same scale as those by Desgodetz, but show new details from different sources, including the Vatican Museum.