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PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre (1727-1801). Suite des Vases Tirée du Cabinet de Son Excellence Monsieur du Tillot Marquis de Felino et gravé a l'Eau forte d'apres les Dessins originaux de... Petitot . Parma: Bossi, [1764].
PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre (1727-1801). Suite des Vases Tirée du Cabinet de Son Excellence Monsieur du Tillot Marquis de Felino et gravé a l'Eau forte d'apres les Dessins originaux de... Petitot . Parma: Bossi, [1764]. 2 o (428 x 275 mm). Engraved calligraphic title-page, 2 engraved calligraphic dedication leaves, etched pictorial title, etched pictorial dedication, and 30 engraved plates by Benigno Bossi after Petitot (some pale dampstaining, two short marginal tears). Late 18th-century boards (rebacked in morocco). Provenance : acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1986. FIRST EDITION, third state, illustrating an exceptional series of neo-classical vases after original designs by French architect and designer Petitot. Born in Lyons in 1727, Petitot studied architecture with Soufflot and by 1753 had moved to the francophile court of Parma at the request of the Marquis de Felino, to whom this work is dedicated, and become architect to the Duke. The engraver Bossi was also born in 1727, studied at Nuremberg and Dresden and lived in Parma from 1760. Complete sets (in any state) of Petitot's Suite des Vases are RARE. Berlin Kat. 1081; William Cole "The States of Petitot and Bossi's Suite de Vases ," in: Print Quarterly, X, 1993, pp. 156-60; Millard Italian 23:2; Rothschild 256 (wrongly dating dedication "1744"). [ Laid-in :] two plates of fireplace mantels engraved by Bossi after Petitot on different paper "Projects pour de Cheminées." See Guilmard.