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.; 50 (of 51) pl. (pl. 17 missing; marg. dampstaining to first ff.,

19th-c. three-quarter blue calf, marbled paper covers, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, marbled edges (partly rubbed).

First ed. of this model book for artists by the famous painter and neoclassicist A.C. Lens (Antwerp 1739-1822). 50 (of 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.