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. marg. soil, min. fox., marg. staining, a few marg. rest.).

Mod. quarter leather, (marbl.) paper on covers, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, leather title label, marbl. endpapers (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. engraved on copper 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 (ownership entry).