(Le Nôtre)HARLAY, Ch(arles).   LE CHATEAU DE CLAGNY A VERSAILLES.   Restitution - Notices - Iconographiques.       Versailles: Editions Artistiques Et Scientifiques,   (1913).          Number 276 from a numbered edition limited to 300. The Chateau de Clagny was designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for Madame de Maintenon and largely completed between 1674 and 1680. Although among the most important of the private residences designed by this great architect, it was destroyed less than a century later. In the present volume Harlay assembles most of the significant documentary evidence available regarding the chateau and presents a graphic restoration of the building and its gardens based on these early records. The views of the gardens are of particular interest here, as they were designed by (or in collaboration with) LeNôtre. Although the main focus, of course, is on Mansart's architecture, at least one third of the plates are primarily of the gardens or include significant images of them.   Folio (44.5 x 32.4 cm); (ii) + 36 pp. with 8 text illustrations + 43 gravure plates (4 portraits, 16 detail drawings of Harlay's reconstruction, and 23 reproductions from early prints and other graphic sources).            Original cloth-covered portfolio with gilt lettering on spine, printed paper title piece paste-down on upper cover. A very good copy. $350.00

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