Le costume ou Essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l'Antiquité, prouvé par les monuments.

4to: xxxi-[1]-411-[1] pp.; 51 pl. (sl. browned, foxing, sl. marg. damp stains).

Mod. half sheep, marbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands, red spr. edges (rubbed).

First edition of this model book for artists by the famous painter and neoclassicist A.C. Lens (Antwerp 1739-1822). 51 plates engr. by P. Martenasie, depicting 160 models.
Ref. Conlon 76:1191 (= NUC). - De Theux 649. - Colas 1828 (= Lipperheide 105). - Vinet 1812. - Brunet III:980. - Dict. des peintres belges, p. 636.