Costume du Moyen Âge d'après les manuscrits, les peintures et les monuments contemporains. Précédé d'une dissertation sur les moeurs et les usages de cette époque.

2 vol., 8vo: [4]-378-[1], [4]-168 pp.; 149 (of 150) pl. (pl. Philippine de Hainaut in vol. II missing; occ. spotting).

Contemp. half red morocco, blind-orn. orange cloth on covers, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, brown spr. edges (rubbed, head of vol. I missing and sm. lack of leather to head of 2nd vol.).

First edition illustrated with 149 hand-coloured plates, heightened with Arabic gum, showing European medieval civil, religious & military costumes, from the 13th until the 15th c., and their accessories (helmets and headdresses).
Ref. De le Court p. 294. - Lipperheide 352. - Colas 2965. - Bibliogr. nat. belge IV:35. - Brunet III:1789.