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LE ROUGE (Georges-Louis).

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LE ROUGE (Georges-Louis).
Details of the new fashionable gardens. [Then]: Anglo-Chinese gardens. Paris: Le Rouge, [1775-1788]. Oblong folios, stapled or in sheets, usually with full margins, in waiting covers, or modest old-fashioned half-basane (worn bindings, margin defects and a few accidents, as is).
Important set of 12 issues, comprising 263 plates from this remarkable, innovative collection:
- Book 1. 25 plates (num. 1-23 and 2 fold-outs without no.) and 2 f. of engraved text, numbered 24-25. Bound. - Book 2. 23 plates. Paperback. - Book 3. 28 plates. Hardcover. - Book 4. 30 plates. Bound. - Book 5. 20 plates. Paperback. - Book 6. 30 plates. Bound (3 loose plates, spotting at end of volume). - Book 7. Pl. 1, 2, 5 to 7, 9, 10, 14 (repaired), 15, 17 to 19, 20 to 23 (text, worn), 24 to 27. - Book 8. 27 plates (of 28, mq. pl. 16)| followed by 16 plates by Neufforge. Bound. - Book 9. 15 plates. Hardcover. - Book 10. 12 plates + 2 from another book. Bound (adhesive on pl.1.). - Book 13. 26 plates including title. Bound in 19th c. blue half-basane with corners. - Book 21 (the last to appear and the rarest). 5 plates (of 6), nos. 1 to 5. Paperback (De Ganay 99).