Title: Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires: Costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics (caption title_ Author: [Garnerey, Jean François] Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: [c.1796] Description: 8 pp. + 26 hand-colored aquatint plates. [8vo) 19x12.7 cm (7½x5"), later full red morocco ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, all edges 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 OCLC/WorldCat lists ten copies, locating nine of them. Lot Amendments Condition: Fading/discoloration to covers; some soiling within, bookseller's catalogue entry mounted on front pastedown, else very good. Item number: 274376
Title: Collection des nouveaux costumes des autorités constituées, civils et militaires: Costumes des législateurs, et des autres fonctionnaires publics (caption title_ Author: [Garnerey, Jean François] Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: [c.1796] Description: 8 pp. + 26 hand-colored aquatint plates. [8vo) 19x12.7 cm (7½x5"), later full red morocco ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, all edges 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 OCLC/WorldCat lists ten copies, locating nine of them. Lot Amendments Condition: Fading/discoloration to covers; some soiling within, bookseller's catalogue entry mounted on front pastedown, else very good. Item number: 274376
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