Recueil des décorations intérieures
Subtitle: comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'ameublement : comme vases, trépieds, candélabres, cassolettes, lustres, girandoles, lampes, chandeliers, cheminées, feux, poêles, pendules, tables, secrétaires, lits, canapés, fauteuils, chaises, tabourets, miroirs, écrans, etc. etc. etc
By: composé par C. Percier et P.F.L. Fontaine, exécuté sur leurs dessins
Contributors: Fontaine, Pierre François Léonard, 1762-1853; Lacour, Pierre, 1745-1814, engraver; Sky Meadow Bindery
Publisher: Chez les auteurs, au Louvre; P. Didot l'ainé, imprimeur ... et les principaux libraires
Published: 1812
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Neoclassical Furniture; Empire style; Furniture; Interior decoration; Neoclassicism (Architecture); Decoration and ornament; Neoclassicism; History
Notes: Text composed of Discours préliminaire (p. [1] (2nd group)-19) and Table explicative (p. [21]-43).

Page [20] and the final p. are blank.

Engraved head-piece, signed by Lacour.

The plates were first published in 12 parts, with 6 plates each, in 1801. The 1801 ed. did not include the text.

Many of the plates include measurements in métres and in pieds.

CHMRB has three copies.

CHMRB c. 1 (39088006932594) is imperfect: Plate 53 is wanting.

CHMRB c. 2 (39088006932602) is 43 cm. tall.

CHMRB c. 3 (39088009683053), with accession no. 201296, has some page repairs, ink stains, and a few penciled rough sketches of furniture throughout.

CHMRB c. 3 has modern blue cloth binding with gilt-lettered red leather spine label; binder's ticket on back paste-down endpaper describes the book's conservation treatment and binding, signed "Sky Meadow Bindery, December 1984."