Modes et Costumes Historiques: Dessines et Graves par Pauquet Freres d'apres les Meilleurs Maitres de Chaque Epoque et les Documents les Plus Authentiques

 Polydore Pauquet; Hippolyte Louis Emile Pauquet

Aux Bureaux Des Modes et Costumes Historiques, 1864

4to, 31 x 26 cm. Bound in publisher's contemporary red morocco.  Gilt paneled spine.  Gilt decoration to boards, inner gilt dentelles.  Some scuffing, rubbing to cover.  Front board rebacked.  Spine moderately darkened.  All edges gilt. Hand colored title page vignette.  Pages are clean and attractive. 96 hand colored plates & guard sheets.  The plates depict royal and aristocratic French costume during the reigns of Clovis I in the 5th century to Napoleon in the 19th century.  Colas II, 2293. Hiler & Hiler, 691

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