Receuil des plus beaux portails de plusieures eglises de Paris
By: P. Cottart fecit
Contributors: Marot, Jean, 1619?-1679; Mitchell, Herbert, former owner; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library)
Publisher: Van Merle, rue S. Iacques a la ville d'Anuers ...
Published: 1660
Place of publication: [Anvers]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Doorways; Pictorial works; Church architecture; Architectural Decoration and ornament; Buildings, structures; Early works to 1800
Notes: Engravings by Cottart after designs by various architects including himself.

Engraved historiated t.p. included in leaves of plates, those following numbered 2-12.

Earlier ed. including the subjects and a dedication page dated 1650. "Receuil de plusiers pièces darchitecture qui sont à Paris et aux environs." "Se vendent chez l'auteur." The Anvers 1660 ed. t.p. also shows: "P. Cottaert fecit" in some copies.

Inventaire du fonds français, XVIIème s. observes: Ces pièces figurent avec celle de Jean Marot, qui généralement indique à tort semble t-il, comme ayant participéà leur preparation.

Avery Classics copy: Leaves disbound at some point, now mounted on paper.

Staatliche Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Katalog der Ornamentstichssammlung, 2464

BN. Inventaire, XVII. s., III, p. 183-184, 4-16

British Architectural Library. Early Imprints Collection. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 724

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell