RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas Edme (1734-1806)]. Monument du costume physique et moral de la fin du dix-huitième siecle, ou tableaux de la vie. Neuwied sur le Rhin: Société Typographique, 1789. Large 2° (607 x 430mm). 26 engraved plates, 24 after Jean-Michel-Moreau le jeune, 2 after Sigmund Freudeberg, engraved by Baquoy, Dambrun, de Launay, Guttenberg and others. (Some spotting and old dampstaining.) Original boards, uncut (extremities scuffed, repairs to inner hinges). Third issue of plates originally published in 1775 and 1776 under the title Suite d'Estampes pour servir à l'Histoire des Moeurs et du Costumes des Français du XVIII . siècle . Cohen-de Ricci 881; Brunet III.1896; Ray French 55 "among the great achievements of the world's graphic art."
RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas Edme (1734-1806)]. Monument du costume physique et moral de la fin du dix-huitième siecle, ou tableaux de la vie. Neuwied sur le Rhin: Société Typographique, 1789. Large 2° (607 x 430mm). 26 engraved plates, 24 after Jean-Michel-Moreau le jeune, 2 after Sigmund Freudeberg, engraved by Baquoy, Dambrun, de Launay, Guttenberg and others. (Some spotting and old dampstaining.) Original boards, uncut (extremities scuffed, repairs to inner hinges). Third issue of plates originally published in 1775 and 1776 under the title Suite d'Estampes pour servir à l'Histoire des Moeurs et du Costumes des Français du XVIII . siècle . Cohen-de Ricci 881; Brunet III.1896; Ray French 55 "among the great achievements of the world's graphic art."
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