L'Architecture Edition Ramee

Charles Nicolas Ledoux

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1983.

Ramée Edition, 6th printing. 31.5 x 23.5 cm. Quarto. Brown cloth in dust jacket. English language introduction with the plates and descriptions of the plates in French. Dust jacket spine is sun faded.  Claude-Nicolas Ledoux ( 1736 –  1806) was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture. Ledoux hoped to record his ideas and design in 5 volumes. However, at the time of his death in 1806 he had published only one: L'Architecture consideréee sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs, et de la legislation. This book contained 125 plates and explanatory text, focusing on Ledoux's plans for a utopian city. Ledoux completed 173 additional plates for the remaining unpublished volumes. In 1847, Daniel Ramée Assembled all 300 plates into two volumes, L'Architecture de C. N. Ledoux, which has become the definitive collection of Ledoux's design. It is a rare work. This is a reproduction combining to the two volumes into a single volume. It also includes the first English translation of Ledoux's Prospectus, explaining the five planned volumes, and an introduction by Anthony Vidler. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.