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Paris, chez l'auteur, 1778-1791. In 2nd. 6 volumes in 5 volumes. Frontispieces, engraved titles with colored vignette, engraved and colored title pages, over 500 plates of costumes engraved "à la manière noire" and colored by the Bar himself, text sheets in light blue, SHARDED SPECIMEN, binding in half leather and pink hardback with titles on the spine.
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First edition of one of the most important works dedicated to religious and military costumes, decorated with almost 600 hand-coloured engravings period, preserved in its original rustic hardcover binding and barbs.
ORIGINAL EDITION published in 56 issues between 1778 and 1798. According to Lipperheide, the work was already almost finished with the 51st issue (1789); the last 5 numbers contained some tables and above all the indexes of each volume, essential for the classification of the engravings with the related texts.
«PARMI LES OUVRAGES DONT LE COSTUME RELIGIEUX A ÉTÉ L'OBJET, CELUI-CI EST UN DES PLUS CONSIDÉRABLES: ordres militaires, hospitaliers, mendiants, y sont représentés ; on you same des derviches et des fakirs. Le costume des fakirs!! … CETTE ENCYCLOPÉDIE... RENFERME UN TRÈS GRAND NOMBRE DE FIGURES. […] The author of the beau emprunter ses modèles aux pierres tombales, aux manuscrits : the taste of the 18th century is what you hear today. THE TEXTS EST SAVANT; bien fourni de documents curieux, et comme il renferme l'histoire de chaque order, il est good à consulter, à l'occasion..." (Vinet, Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des Beaux Arts, 2103).Cohen-deRicci 110ff; Lipperheide 1848; Colas 209.
ORIGINAL EDITION published in 56 issues between 1778 and 1798. According to Lipperheide, the work was already almost finished with the 51st issue (1789); the last 5 numbers contained some tables and above all the indexes of each volume, essential for the classification of the engravings with the related texts.
«PARMI LES OUVRAGES DONT LE COSTUME RELIGIEUX A ÉTÉ L'OBJET, CELUI-CI EST UN DES PLUS CONSIDÉRABLES: ordres militaires, hospitaliers, mendiants, y sont représentés ; on you same des derviches et des fakirs. Le costume des fakirs!! … CETTE ENCYCLOPÉDIE... RENFERME UN TRÈS GRAND NOMBRE DE FIGURES. […] The author of the beau emprunter ses modèles aux pierres tombales, aux manuscrits : the taste of the 18th century is what you hear today. THE TEXTS EST SAVANT; bien fourni de documents curieux, et comme il renferme l'histoire de chaque order, il est good à consulter, à l'occasion..." (Vinet, Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des Beaux Arts, 2103).Cohen-deRicci 110ff; Lipperheide 1848; Colas 209.
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