c1904 Charpentiers de Paris syndicate woodworkers FRANCE architecture plates

Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - INTERESTING AND HANDSOME WORK - PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED -[ed.] FAVARON (L.)Les Charpentiers de Paris. Album. Societe Anonyme Ourvriere. L. Favaron, Directeur. Siege Social, Bureux, Ateliers & Chantiers.(Paris): (the Society), n.d. [ca. 1904]. Presumed first edition. Colour litho title + another colour litho + 158 ff. (including letterpress and plates - variously printed - and numbered on recto only) + 3 ff. Folio, original textured red cloth boards, blind ruled and decoratively lettered in gilt, bevelled edges. Size: 4to (35.5cm x 27cm). A heavy book weighing approx. 5kg with packaging, hence the higher than normal shipping price.Very Good to Good condition. Boards slightly faded with a bit of wear at extremities, hinges ever so slightly loosening but still quite secure, internally very good. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.An extremely handsome and interesting publication. Plates include photographic images, floorplans, and a considerable number of lithographic plates of perspectival drawings printed in different colour ink. From Peter Bennett "text on the organisation and works of the syndicate of woodworkers, including its history, list of architect-clients and list of public buildings, profusely illustrated with full-page reproductions from drawings, plans, sections and photos, including views of its facilities and staff, the restoration of the Arc de Triomphe, many pavilions from the 1900 Exposition, numerous commercial and private buildings, and many intricate details." key words:

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