Recueil des Costumes de la Bretagne et des autre contr�es de la France..., Nantes: Charpentier, 1829-1831], sixty (of 120) hand-coloured lithographed plates, bound without the title-page, intermittent toning and spotting, first plate with short tear in upper blank margin (paper repaired on verso), three plates with small crude circular repair to blank upper corner, sheet size 33 x 24.5cm (13 x 9.75ins), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, hinges split, contemporary half calf with gilt decorated spine, rubbed and some wear to extremities (slight loss to spine ends, joints partly split, and corners showing), large folio Apparently the earliest work to focus on the costume of Brittany; complete copies are extremely rare, and even collections of plates such as these seldom come on the market. The Charpentiers were Bretons who settled in Nantes, and produced a series of works using the new technique of lithography which had been introduced to Nantes in 1821. These lively and beautifully coloured plates, with their landscape back-drops, include depictions of the extraordinary headdresses of Caudebec and other regions, the bizarre stilt-walking shepherds of Landes, the pretty water and milk carriers of Rochefort, the cloth-making maidens of Louviers, and the pipe-smoking young men of Cornouaille and Lesneven. (1)
Recueil des Costumes de la Bretagne et des autre contr�es de la France..., Nantes: Charpentier, 1829-1831], sixty (of 120) hand-coloured lithographed plates, bound without the title-page, intermittent toning and spotting, first plate with short tear in upper blank margin (paper repaired on verso), three plates with small crude circular repair to blank upper corner, sheet size 33 x 24.5cm (13 x 9.75ins), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, hinges split, contemporary half calf with gilt decorated spine, rubbed and some wear to extremities (slight loss to spine ends, joints partly split, and corners showing), large folio Apparently the earliest work to focus on the costume of Brittany; complete copies are extremely rare, and even collections of plates such as these seldom come on the market. The Charpentiers were Bretons who settled in Nantes, and produced a series of works using the new technique of lithography which had been introduced to Nantes in 1821. These lively and beautifully coloured plates, with their landscape back-drops, include depictions of the extraordinary headdresses of Caudebec and other regions, the bizarre stilt-walking shepherds of Landes, the pretty water and milk carriers of Rochefort, the cloth-making maidens of Louviers, and the pipe-smoking young men of Cornouaille and Lesneven. (1)
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