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JOB (ONFROY DE BRÉVILLE, Jacques, known as). BOUCHOT.
The Epic or French Military Costume. Original watercolours and drawings by Job.
Paris, Société Française d’Editions d’Art, 1898.
The Epic or French Military Costume. Original watercolours and drawings by Job.
Paris, Société Française d’Editions d’Art, 1898.
Small folio. Richly illustrated hardback in the publisher’s empire green morocco leather (with a few minor signs of wear).
First edition.
A fine publication illustrated with colour plates printed on rag paper and numerous black-and-white en-text plates, engraved by Raymond, Ducourtioux and Huillard, depicting military uniforms from the Gauls to the Second Empire.
A sumptuously illustrated first edition of French military campaigns and uniforms, with a focus on Napoleon and the Imperial Grand Army.
Covers decorated with an allegorical design.
EMPIRE.
Included:
CHEZELLES, H. de, Viscount.
L’Homme de cheval. 3rd ed.
Paris, Hachette, 1894.
In-12, contemporary brown shagreen. A fine copy.
Handwritten note: “Given by the Count of Bestion? 15 November 1935”.