Paris And Its Environs, Displayed In A Series of Views, From Original Drawings

London: Jennings & Chaplin, 1831. Hardcover. Contemporary gilt lettered gilt lined three quarter morocco and dark brown cloth. Teg. Very good/Near fine. Pugin, Augustus Charles. 202 pages. 36 x 28.4 cm. 202 steel engraved views on 101 mounted sheets (India Proofs, each plate with two images) as issued with tissue guards. Published 1829-1931. Topographical and historical descriptions by L.T. Ventouillac. An architectural draughtsman, he worked for Nash for several years before setting out on his own [see: BRYAN Vol.IV, p.166], and was instrumental in reestablishing the Gothic Revival movement in England. Text in English and French. Scattered plate offsetting, with all plates clean and bright. Two volumes in one.