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97. Perrier, François.

ILLmo. D. D. ROGERIO DV PLESSEIS / DNO. DE LIANCOVRT
MARCHI-/ONI DE MONTFORT, COMITI DE / LA ROCHEGVION
&. a. VTRIVSQVE / ORDINIS CHRISTIANISSIMAE /
MAIESTATIS E QVITI REGIIS A / CUBICVLIS PRIMARIO. /
Heroi Virtutum et magnarum arti-/um eximio cultori. / Auorum pace
belloque praestantium / Et aeui melioris decora referenti; / SEGMENTA
nobilium signorum e statuaru, / Quae temporis dentem inuidium
euasere / Vrbis aeternae ruinis erepta / Typis aeneis abse
commissa / Perpetuae uenerationis monumentum. / Franciscus Perrier. /
D. D. D. / M.D.C. XXXVIII / Romae, superiorum permissu. / Cum
privilegio summi / Pontificis.

Folio. Engraved title page (1 leaf); 100 engraved plates, of which 2
are folding; engraved index (2 leaves).

All the plates were drawn and engraved by Perrier, the first plate bearing
a full signature and the others being initialed.

François Perrier, who worked under the name François Perrier Le
Bourguigon or Perrier Le Bourguigon (1584-1656), studied in Rome
with Lanfranco. He returned to Mâcon and Paris, but being unsuccessful,
he went back to Rome where he stayed for some ten years.

This book is a first edition. It contains views of sculpture found in
Rome (see Plate CXII), sometimes several views of the same statue.

Jefferson's own copy was sold to Congress. He ordered it for the
University in the section on "Gardening. Painting. Sculpture. Music"
of the want list, but there is no record of its having been received. The
library's present copy has been recently acquired, the gift of the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U. Va.

*NB86.P45.1638

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Plate CXII. From No. 97. Laocoön (Pl. I).