Royal French Interior Designs

DALY, Cesar.  MOTIFS HISTORIQUES D'ARCHITECTURE ET DE SCULPTURE D'ORNEMENT.  DECORATIONS INTERIEURES.  Two volumes.

Paris: Ducher, 1880. Folios. Publisher's half-morocco. (iv), 3, (1) pages, 7, 17, 17, 5, 16, 13, 30 plates; (iv), 3, (1) pages, 40, 55 plates. First editions.

A suite of measured drawings showing French interiors from Louis XII through Louis XVI (1497-1792).  The plates include sixteen finely printed chromolithographs, five of which are double-pages.  Daly offered a series of exterior views, not present here, in 1881.  Moderate binding wear, sporadic foxing, still an acceptable set.

$1,500.00