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Edité par Le Roi, Libraire, Paris, 1841
Vendeur : Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, Etats-Unis
Morocco. Etat : See Description. Green full morocco (leather hard-cover) boards, blind embossed and gilt decorations, marbled endpapers (35 cm.). Unpaginated, w/ List of Plates at rear; Collated complete with 70 hand-coloured copper-engraved plates of costumes of European noblewomen from the 12th to the 18th centuries. Plates accompanied with descriptive text in French. Remaining title reads: Portraits en pied, dessinés par M. Lanté, la plupart des originaux inédits, graves par M. Gatine, et coloriés avec soin; avec des notices biographiques et des remarques sur les habillements; ouvrage édité par M. de la Mésangère. Spine MISSING, boards DETACHED; internally all plates clean and bright. Sold with all Faults. (Hiler 526) Size: Folio.
Edité par chez l?editeur c. 1827, Paris, 1827
Vendeur : Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Recent ½ calf with original marbled boards and blind-tooled borders, spine in five compartments of raised gilt bands preserving original black morocco title label on three, endpapers renewed., Text in French.All sources agree that the plates drawn and engraved in this work are exceptionally well executed and highly desirable. Louis-Marie Lante, born in 1789, was a painter and illustrator. He remains known today for his elegant and refined depictions of women?s attire. George-Jaques Gatine (1773-1824) was a prominent French engraver, who worked primarily with Lante throughout his career. Both Lante and Gatine are considered to be important costume artists of the early 19th-century. , Size : 4to, Illustrated with 52 (of 70) hand-coloured copper engraved plates of different French women?s costumes from the 12th to 18th century. , References : Hiler 526; Colas I:1765; Brunet III:32., P. (4), title, blank, 52 plates, (6). Occasional mild browning, lacks 18 plates and all accompanying text; otherwise a very good copy.