43b. Félibien, André.
Vol. I ENTRETIENS / SUR LES VIES / ET / SUR LES OUVRAGES
/ DES PLUS / EXCELLENS PEINTRES / ANCIENS ET
MODERNES; / AVEC / LA VIE DES ARCHITECTES / PAR
MONSIEUR FELIBIEN. / NOUVELLE EDITION, REVUE, CORRIGÉE
/ & augmentée des Conferences de l'Académie Royale / de Peinture
& de Sculpture; / De l'Idée du Peintre parfait, des Traitez de la
Miniature, / des Desseins, des Estampes, de la connoissance / des
Tableaux, & du Goût des Nations; / DE LA DESCRIPTION DES
MAISONS DE / Campagne de Pline, & celle des Invalides. / TOME
PREMIER. / A TREVOUX, / DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE S. A. S. /
M. DCCXXV.
12mo. Engraved frontispiece (1 leaf); two-color title page (1 leaf);
dedication ([1]-16); preface ([17]-48); text ([49]-364); table of contents
(6 leaves).
Vol. II. ENTRETIENS / . . . / TOME SECOND. / . . .
12mo. Engraved frontispiece (1 leaf); two-color title page (1 leaf);
text ([1]-384); table of contents (4 leaves).
Vol. III. ENTRETIENS / . . . / TOME TROISIÉME. / . . .
12mo. Two-color title page (1 leaf); text ([1]-537); table of contents
(7 unnumbered pp.).
Vol. IV. ENTRETIENS / . . . / TOME QUATRIÉME. / . . .
12mo. Two-color title page (1 leaf); text ([1]-467); table of contents (5
unnumbered pp.).
Vol. V. ENTRETIENS / . . . / TOME CINQUIÉME. / . . .
and
[Half title:] CONFERENCES / DE / L'ACADEMIE ROYALE / DE
PEINTURE / ET / DE SCULPTURE. / PAR Mr. FELIBIEN, /
Sécrétaire de l'Académie des Sciences, & / Historiographe du Roi.
12mo. Two-color title page (1 leaf); dedication ([1]-12); preface ([13]24);
text ([25]-267); table of contents (19 unnumbered pp.); half title
(1 leaf); dedication ([291]-97); preface ([298]-330); text ([331]-466).
Vol. VI. ENTRETIENS / . . . / TOME SIXIÉME. / . . .
12mo. Two-color title page ([i]); dedication ([iii]-vi); note ([vii]-viii);
1st text ([ix]-cxvii); table of contents (3 unnumbered pp.); 2d text ([1]283);
table of contents (5 leaves); 5 engravings, of which 3 are folding.
André Félibien, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-95), was born in
Chartres. He was educated in Paris and Rome and knew Fouquet, Colbert,
and Nicolas Poussin, under whom he also studied. In 1666 he became
historiographe des batiments, in 1671 the secretary of the Académie
d'Architecture on its establishment during that year, and in 1673 the
garde du Cabinet des antiques. He was the author of numerous works.
This book passed through many editions. Its first was in 1666 in
Paris, and thereafter it appeared in four more editions before 1700. The
first four volumes of this edition, 1725, deal with painters, the first part
of the fifth with architects, the second part of the fifth with some lectures
by Félibien, and the sixth volume embraces a series of short pieces.
Sowerby, who found no copy for examination, says that Jefferson's
own set was in 12mo. and consisted of five volumes which had been issued
in Amsterdam in 1706. This set was sold to Congress. Since Jefferson
ordered a five-volume set in 12mo. for the University in the section on
"Gardening. Painting. Sculpture. Music" of the want list, there is little
doubt that he had the Amsterdam, 1706 edition in mind. What Hilliard
bought for him, however, was the six-volume set of 1725 which was issued
at Trevoux. This set is still in the library (see Plate XXXIV).
U. Va.
*N27.F3.1725
