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

Liège, aux dépens de l'auteur, chez J. F. Bassompierre, 1776

€ 120 / 150

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Lot description

4to: xxxi-[1]-411-[1] pp.; 51 pl. (occ. foxing, some sl. spotting, quire D sl. browned).

Contemp. mottled sheep, double gilt-ruled covers, green morocco label "1r de la classe d'après l'Antique", gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (rubbed, lower cover more, front cover part. & sl. discoloured).

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.
Prov. Postcard in Dutch sent to A. J. Daal from Ghent in 1891.