[Rarebooks] FS: Renaissance Furniture Designs

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A Scarce Victorian Collection of Renaissance Furniture Designs-

Baldus, Eduoard. OEUVRE DE JACQUES ANDROUET DIT DU CERCEAU. MEUBLES.

Paris; Edouard Baldus: c.1880. A very scarce collection of facsimiles of 
design plates for furniture, metalwork, and mantels by the great 16th 
century designer Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau. Du Cerceau was an important 
designer of architecture, ornament, furniture, metalwork and other 
decorative designs, and was an important and influential proponent of 
Renaissance designs. A Huguenot who set up his business in Orleans, early 
in his career he designed the triumphal arches there for the arrival of 
Henri II. Religious warfare caused him to flee the city in 1562, but, along 
with other prominent Huguenots, was given shelter by the Duchess of 
Ferrara, daughter of Louis XII, at her chateaux in Montargis, where he 
stayed until about 1575.

His later collections of designs were published in Paris, so Jervis 
speculates that he spent the latter part of his career there, which seems 
reasonable. His greatest works, 'Les Plus Excellents Bastiments de France', 
published in 1576 and 1579, were both dedicated to Catherine de Medici. The 
first section of this book consists of 51 plates of furniture, metalwork 
and ornament; the second portion contains 20 plates of designs for 
mantelpieces. Jervis ("Printed Furniture Design Before 1650") notes that 
"while students of eighteenth and nineteenth century furniture have been 
well served by reprints, there has been an almost total neglect of the 
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the only exception, apart from 
isolated illustrations, being Baldus's Du Cerceau edition of about 1880, 
now itself a rarity".

Hardcover. 12.5"x17.5", decorative engraved title page, printed title page, 
+ 51 + 20 engraved plates by Baldus. Bound in period mottled boards with a 
cloth spine; covers with light wear and rubbing, plates clean and 
wide-margined. [08817] $1,200.00

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