Title: Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires: Costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics Author: [Garnerey, Jean François] Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: [c.1796] Description: 4 pp. + 26 hand-colored aquatint plates. (4to) 29x23 cm (11½x9"), later full red morocco ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Scarce and significant work recording the dress of legislators, bureaucrats, and public functionaries of France at the time of the Revolution. The text by Garneray, who also drew the costumes, describes the costumes and the materials used in their creation. The plates were engraved by Pierre-Michel Alix Apparently a large-paper or separate quarto edition, OCLC/WorldCat lists ten copies, locating nine of them. only one entry notes this 29 cm page height, most noting 21 cm. Lot Amendments Condition: Some foxing, short marginal tear to one leaf; very good. Item number: 284744a
Title: Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires: Costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics Author: [Garnerey, Jean François] Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: [c.1796] Description: 4 pp. + 26 hand-colored aquatint plates. (4to) 29x23 cm (11½x9"), later full red morocco ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Scarce and significant work recording the dress of legislators, bureaucrats, and public functionaries of France at the time of the Revolution. The text by Garneray, who also drew the costumes, describes the costumes and the materials used in their creation. The plates were engraved by Pierre-Michel Alix Apparently a large-paper or separate quarto edition, OCLC/WorldCat lists ten copies, locating nine of them. only one entry notes this 29 cm page height, most noting 21 cm. Lot Amendments Condition: Some foxing, short marginal tear to one leaf; very good. Item number: 284744a
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