The copy in the Library of Congress is without date. In all the bibliographies consulted with the exception of De Ricci-Cohen the work is dated an IX and X (1801, 2). De Ricci-Cohen dates the work ( vers 1800).

Jefferson bought his copy from Reibelt of Baltimore on December 24, 1804, price $ 40.00. It was offered to him by Reibelt in a letter dated from Baltimore, December 13, 1804: “Le dernier Exemplaire, qui me restoit, des Plans des Maisons de Paris--n’a certainement pü être mieux place que dans votre bibliothèque.

"Je n’en ai plus, mais j’en attends et j’aurois l’honneur de vous en envoyer 2 Exempl. aussitot que je les aurois reçus . . .”

On December 15, Reibelt wrote to say that Jefferson would find it in the first case of a number with books sent on approval for selection by the Secretary of State. On December 24, Jefferson sent Reibelt a list of those he had selected for his personal library, of which the first was this work. The book appears on several lists of books bought during the year 1804 made by Jefferson including a statement in his own hand of his account with Reibelt, with the date of purchase, December 24, and the price 40D.

The binding bill of John March, Georgetown, includes under the date March 7, 1805, the entry: “ 1 vol. folio. Maisons de Paris plates reduced difficult Ex ^t. Calf gilt 5.00. ”

The work was issued in 20 livraisons, each containing 6 plates and the accompanying text. On January 20, 1806, Jefferson wrote to Reibelt at Baltimore: “ . . . I have at length found a moment to revise the Catalogue you were so kind as to send me in your’s of the 11 ^th. and I reduce my wants at present to those above stated, & shall avail myself of the kind offer of m ( ^~ r) Guestier to have them brought from Bordeaux . . .”

The first of those “above stated” was “ Des plans et coupes des Maisons de Paris par Krafft et Ransonet in fol. la [ ] livraison et suiv en feuilles.”

Immediately after this Reibelt announced his departure for New Orleans, and arrangements were made for the importation of Jefferson’s books from Europe.

On June 16, Dufour of Amsterdam sent to T. H. Backer a bill for books for Monsieur le President Jefferson, and in a footnote explained: “ La 20me livraison des Plans, coupes &c. des maisons & Hotels de Paris par Krafft est la deniere de l’ouvrage.”

Johann Karl Krafft, 1764-1833, was born in Austria, but spent the greater part of his life in Paris. He published a number of books on architecture.

Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette, 1745-1810, French engraver, engraved the plates for a number of the French illustrated books issued in the eighteenth century.