Yale Center for British Art

Title:
A tour through Paris : illustrated with twenty-one coloured plates : accompanied with descriptive letter-press.
Published / Created:
London : Published by William Sams, St. James's Street, [1828?]
Physical Description:
[40] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2009 20 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2009 20 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2009 20 Copy 3
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Depictions of Parisian life during the Restoration.

Engravings copied from Jean-Henri Marlet's Tableaux de Paris and Richard Brinsley Peake's Characteristic costume. See Abbey.

Probable date of publication from Abbey.

Aquatints and accompanying descriptions after Jean-Henri Marlet.

Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 2898

Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, Germany). Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.), Fd 19

Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 443

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 114

BAC: British Art Center has three copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in later red calf, by Riviere. Paper watermarked 1828. Copy 2 bound in dark-green half morocco and marbled boards. Copy 3 bound in blue half morocco and marbled boards. Armorial bookplates: Viconte de Villa; S. Jolliffe Tufnell; T. Henry Foster.
Subject Terms:
Paris (France) -- Pictorial works. | Paris (France) -- Social life and description -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | Clothing and dress -- France -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | Fashion -- France -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | Sams, William -- Publisher. | Riviere -- Binding, 1828. | Foster, T. Henry -- Bookplate | Villa, Viconte de -- Bookplate. | Tufnell, S. Jollifee
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1828.
Contributors:
Marlet, Jean-Henri, 1770–1847. Tableaux de Paris. | Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792–1847.