SAINT-NON (JEAN CLAUDE RICHARD DE)Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, FIRST EDITION, 5 vol., half-titles, titles with engraved vignettes, 5 double-page engraved maps, complete with all the full page engraved plates by by Claude-Augustin Duflos Le Roy, Prévost, Saint-Non and others after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert and Saint-Non, engraved illustrations in the text and tailpieces (some hand-coloured), occasional spotting and damp-staining, early speckled calf gilt, g.e., worn [Berlin Kat. 1904; Blackmer 1473; Brunet V, 55-56; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-De Ricci 928-930], folio (501 x 303mm.), Paris, l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1781-1786Footnotes"ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS AND SUCCESSFUL OF TRAVEL BOOKS" (Gordon N. Ray)
Saint-Non's work "was the first work of its type to appear in France and it created a vogue for the 'voyage pittoresque'" (Blackmer). The author travelled extensively in Italy for this work during 1759-1761, in the company of Fragonard and Hubert Robert Saint-Non also arranged for Vivant Denon who was at the time living in Naples, to engage artists to provide drawings of important scenes not seen by the Saint-Non himself. Publication was by subscription in fascicules, but Saint-Non ruined himself in producing "one of the monuments of French 18th century book-production".
The present copy is one of the early issues, with plates 84, 85, 87 & 88 in volume 3 marked as 24, 11, 13 & 24bis. It contains the scarce plate of priapic bronzes in volume 2 (supposedly suppressed by the King of Naples).
SAINT-NON (JEAN CLAUDE RICHARD DE)Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, FIRST EDITION, 5 vol., half-titles, titles with engraved vignettes, 5 double-page engraved maps, complete with all the full page engraved plates by by Claude-Augustin Duflos Le Roy, Prévost, Saint-Non and others after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert and Saint-Non, engraved illustrations in the text and tailpieces (some hand-coloured), occasional spotting and damp-staining, early speckled calf gilt, g.e., worn [Berlin Kat. 1904; Blackmer 1473; Brunet V, 55-56; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-De Ricci 928-930], folio (501 x 303mm.), Paris, l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1781-1786Footnotes"ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS AND SUCCESSFUL OF TRAVEL BOOKS" (Gordon N. Ray)
Saint-Non's work "was the first work of its type to appear in France and it created a vogue for the 'voyage pittoresque'" (Blackmer). The author travelled extensively in Italy for this work during 1759-1761, in the company of Fragonard and Hubert Robert Saint-Non also arranged for Vivant Denon who was at the time living in Naples, to engage artists to provide drawings of important scenes not seen by the Saint-Non himself. Publication was by subscription in fascicules, but Saint-Non ruined himself in producing "one of the monuments of French 18th century book-production".
The present copy is one of the early issues, with plates 84, 85, 87 & 88 in volume 3 marked as 24, 11, 13 & 24bis. It contains the scarce plate of priapic bronzes in volume 2 (supposedly suppressed by the King of Naples).
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