François PERRIER 100 plates of classical statues. PERRIER. Signorum et statuarum symbola Perreriana. 100 plates of classical statues then surviving in Rome, with a portrait of the dedicatee, Christian Eberhard of Ostfriesland. PERRIER, François and Petrus SCHENCK. Signorum et statuarum symbola Perreriana; eleganti coelo denuo exsculpta, & novo nitore edita à Petro Schenck. Amsterdam, Petrus Schenck, 1702. Folio. With a large woodcut ornament on the title-page; a full-page mezzotint portrait (27.5 x 17.5 cm) by Schenck of the dedicatee Christian Eberhard FUrst of Ostfriesland, a full-page engraved illustrated dedication plate by Schenck (illustrations after François Perrier with the Ostfriesland coat of arms, sculptures, father time, etc.; 100 numbered engraved sculpture plates by Schenck after François Perrier (98 full-page and 2 double-page). 6 pp. plus plates. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, each board with a centrepiece, double fillets forming an inner panel and outer frame, 4 corner pieces in the inner panel, double fillets on the smooth spine (traces of a lost spine label), red sprinkled edges. With owner's name M. Terwiel on an endleaf. In good condition, with tears expertly and unobtrusively repaired in 3 plates (49-50, 88). Binding with light stains. An attractive presentation of 100 statues or groups of statues from classical antiquity.
François PERRIER 100 plates of classical statues. PERRIER. Signorum et statuarum symbola Perreriana. 100 plates of classical statues then surviving in Rome, with a portrait of the dedicatee, Christian Eberhard of Ostfriesland. PERRIER, François and Petrus SCHENCK. Signorum et statuarum symbola Perreriana; eleganti coelo denuo exsculpta, & novo nitore edita à Petro Schenck. Amsterdam, Petrus Schenck, 1702. Folio. With a large woodcut ornament on the title-page; a full-page mezzotint portrait (27.5 x 17.5 cm) by Schenck of the dedicatee Christian Eberhard FUrst of Ostfriesland, a full-page engraved illustrated dedication plate by Schenck (illustrations after François Perrier with the Ostfriesland coat of arms, sculptures, father time, etc.; 100 numbered engraved sculpture plates by Schenck after François Perrier (98 full-page and 2 double-page). 6 pp. plus plates. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, each board with a centrepiece, double fillets forming an inner panel and outer frame, 4 corner pieces in the inner panel, double fillets on the smooth spine (traces of a lost spine label), red sprinkled edges. With owner's name M. Terwiel on an endleaf. In good condition, with tears expertly and unobtrusively repaired in 3 plates (49-50, 88). Binding with light stains. An attractive presentation of 100 statues or groups of statues from classical antiquity.
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