Paris, Mesdames Thibault / Jules Renouard / Bance ainé / Carillan-Goeury, 1827, folio, 36.5 x 27 cm, portrait by Fs Girard (drawing 1808, engr. 1822), xv + 168 pp, frontispiece portrait (by Dormier), 53 pl. h/t, contemporary red boards, black label with gilt lettering, uncut pages. Original edition, some foxing on the text leaves, the plates ,printed on better quality paper, are free of spots. Jean ThomasThibault, 1757-1826, lived in Italy during the Revolution (as you can see from the plates), later member of the Académie and the Institut. The work was published posthumously by his pupil Chapuis..