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

4to: xxxii-412 pp. ; 51 pl. (min. marg. damages, min. fox., min. marg. soiling, marg. staining, a few marg. rest.).

Mod. quarter leather, marbled paper on covers, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, leather title-label (a bit worn, corners bumped). Good, uncut and nice copy.

First ed. of this model book for artists by the famous painter and neoclassicist A.C. Lens (Antwerp 1739-1822). 51 ill. 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. Marcel Bertrand (mod. bookpl.). - Xavier Duquenne, 1998 (ms. entry).