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Paris, chez l'auteur, 1778-1791. In 2nd. 6 volumes in 5 volumes. Frontispiece, engraved titles with color vignette, engraved and colored title pages, over 500 plates of costumes engraved "à la manière noire" and colored by the Bar himself, blue text leaves, BEARED SPECIMEN, binding in half leather and pink hardcover with titles on the spine.
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First edition of one of the most important works dedicated to it to religious and military customs , decorated with nearly 600 hand-colored engravings at the time, preserved in its original rustic hardcover binding and in beards.
ORIGINAL EDITION published in 56 issues between 1778 and 1798. According to Lipperh eide, the work was already almost finished with the 51st number (1789); the last 5 numbers contained some plates and above all the indexes of each volume, indispensable for the classification of the engravings with the relative 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 y voit même des
derviches et des fakirs. Le costume des fakirs !! … THIS ENCYCLOPÉDIE... RENFERME UN TRÈS GRAND
NOMBRE DE FIGURES. […] L'auteur a beau emprunter ses modèles aux pierres tombales, aux manuscrits :
le goût du XVIIIe siècle s'y fait toujours sentir. LE TEXTE EST SAVANT; bien fourni de documents curieux, et
comme il renferme l'histoire de chaque ordre, il est bon à consulter, à l'occasion... » (Vinet, Bibliographie< /i>
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 Lipperh eide, the work was already almost finished with the 51st number (1789); the last 5 numbers contained some plates and above all the indexes of each volume, indispensable for the classification of the engravings with the relative 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 y voit même des
derviches et des fakirs. Le costume des fakirs !! … THIS ENCYCLOPÉDIE... RENFERME UN TRÈS GRAND
NOMBRE DE FIGURES. […] L'auteur a beau emprunter ses modèles aux pierres tombales, aux manuscrits :
le goût du XVIIIe siècle s'y fait toujours sentir. LE TEXTE EST SAVANT; bien fourni de documents curieux, et
comme il renferme l'histoire de chaque ordre, il est bon à consulter, à l'occasion... » (Vinet, Bibliographie< /i>
méthodique et raisonnée des Beaux Arts, 2103).
Cohen-deRicci 110ff; Lipperheide 1848; Colas 209.
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