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"TERNISIEN D\u2019HAUDRICOURT. Fastes de la Nation Fran\u00E7aise, ou Tableaux pittoresques grav\u00E9s par d\u2019habiles Artistes, accompagn\u00E9s d\u2019un Texte explicatif, Et destin\u00E9 \u00E0 perp\u00E9tuer la m\u00E9moire des Hauts faits militaires, des Traits de vertus civiques, ainsi que des exploits de la L\u00E9gion d\u2019Honneur (Splendor of the French Nation or Picturesque engraved paintings by usual artist, accompanied with explain text and destined to influence the memory of high ranking military, civic virtue treaties, as well as Legion of Honour exploits) . Paris, Potier,  Gill\u00E9 fils foundry and printing, 1804 &amp; 1807 ; B. Duchesne printing, 1805.\r\n\r\nThree in-4 quarto grape-colored volumes (30 x 23 cm), brown half sheepskin on corners, spine with fake ribbing, colored paper boards (binding of the era).\r\nComplete collection with letterhead (16 deliveries, being 64 issues with 180 engraved prints).\r\n\r\nComposition: each delivery comprised four issues with three engravings.\r\n\r\nTheoretic schema of each delivered issue: \u2022 title-cover (with manuscript indication for printing) \u2022 3 engraved prints each preceded with tissue guard paper with lettering on verso \u2022 fake title.\r\nAfter issue 37, half-title is replaced by second cover sheet. \r\n\r\nFirst tome :\r\nFour deliveries (1 - 4), being 16 issues (1 - 16) with 3 engraved prints (being 48 engraved prints, being engraved title), vellum before text.\r\n\r\nSecond tome :\r\nFour deliveries (5 - 8), being16 issues (17 - 32) with 3 engraved prints (being 48 engraved prints), vellum before text.\r\n\r\nThird tome :\r\nEight deliveries (9 - 16), being 32 issues : 28 issues (being 84 engraved prints) and 4 issues with text :\r\nTwo deliveries (9 - 10), being 8 issues (33 - 40) with 3 engraved prints (being 24 engraved prints), vellum before text.\r\nOne delivery (11), complete, with text, including 4 issues (41 - 44).\r\nFive deliveries (12 - 16), being 20 issues (45 - 64) (being 60 engraved prints)\r\n\u2022 1 issue non issued [suite n\u00B0 56], with 2 engraved prints, - lettering (tissue guard papers with no lettering)\r\n\u2022 8 issues (45 - 52), with 3 engraved prints (being 24 engraved prints, being engraved title), vellum before text\r\n\u2022 3 issues (53 - 55), with 3 engraved prints (being 9 engraved prints), colored vellum (tissue guard papers with no lettering)\r\n\u2022 1 issue (56) with 1 engraved print, colored vellum (tissue guard paper with no lettering)\r\n\u2022 4 issues (57 - 60), with 3 engraved prints (being 12 engraved prints), vellum before text\r\n\u2022 4 issues (61 - 64), with 3 engraved prints (being 12 engraved prints), vellum before text, inside same cover.\r\n\r\nBinder inversions :\r\n\u2022 Issue 40 and two last engraved prints from issue 39 are bound between issues 47 &amp; 48.\r\n\u2022 One engraved print from issue 46 was inserted in issue 47.\r\n\u2022 Two engraved prints from issue 56 bound in front of issue 45.\r\nThe first issue was comprised as follows : \u2022 Title-cover of 1st issue \u2022 half-title \u2022 general title \u2022 subscription pamphlet \u2022 tissue guard paper (with lettering on verso) \u2022 engraved title \u2022 2 engraved prints preceded with their tissue guard paper with lettering on verso \u2022 half-title.\r\n11th delivery, destined to finish \u00AB 1st volume \u00BB, contains, other two end cover sheets, 31 sheets (Avant-propos, Letters for sovereigns ..., 1 \u0192 white, Table of contents, List ... of subscribers, 1 \u0192 white).\r\nIssue 45 was destined to be the first premi\u00E8re delivery of 2nd volume. It contains, other two end covers sheets: \u2022 half-title \u2022 typographic title \u2022 engraved title and two engraved prints before text (tissue guard paper with lettering in relation).\r\nSecond with cover issue 60, is glued onto Advertising sheet announcing to subscribers that \u00AB This work will definitely comprise only twenty-two deliveries ; forming only two volumes, which contains 120 articles accompanied with several finely-executed engraved prints\u00BB. Meaning each volume contains 11 deliveries : 10 deliveries of 4 issues - 3 engraved prints (being 120 engraved prints), and one delivery with text (counted as 4 issues).\r\nWe have 180 engraved prints, including 168 vellum before text, 2 engraved prints on vellum - lettering, 10 engraved prints colored vellum. \r\n\r\nCollection complete (16 deliveries, being 64 issues, being 180 engraved prints), - which is missing 24 engraved prints from deliveries 17 and 18 (among the 22 announced), which appeared a few years later(1813 ?).\r\nThis work appears to have been delivered over nine years. It was proposed - subscription in four levels of quality : \u00ABBeau Colombier, black Vellum, Colored Vellum, Vellum before text \u00BB, the \u201CVellum before text\u201D was four time more expensive than \u201CBeau Colombier\u201D.\r\nLa publication did not continue - its term : stopped - with 18th delivery. Complete examples of this are very rare, the most completed example is at  French National Library (BN) with 202 engraved prints (again an ordinary printing of black Vellum). Our example may be the only known luxury version of  \u201CVellum before text\u201D, and to have been conserved its delivery covers."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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