Lot n° 36
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MOREAU (Jean-Michel, known as Moreau le Jeune) & FEUDENB - Lot 36
MOREAU (Jean-Michel, known as Moreau le Jeune) & FEUDENBERG (Sigismond). Trois suites d'estampes pour servir l'histoire des modes et du costume des Français dans le dix-huitième siècle. Berlin, Askanischer Verlag, 1920. In-4, XXIV pp. 38 plates, midnight-blue half-chagrin, smooth spine and boards richly decorated with gilded irons in the eighteenth-century style.
German reprint. This collection of 36 plates was first published in Paris between 1774 and 1783, and reused in 1789 by Restif de la Bretonne to illustrate his Monument du costume. According to Colas, they form "the finest collection of 18th-century prints [...] very useful for the study of fashion in high society".
Text in German, captions to engravings in French. Wet stamp on title.
Spine unstained, covers rubbed, else a fine copy.
(Colas, 1118 ff. for the original edition)".
Expert : Madame Elvire POULAIN-MARQUIS
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