Les arts somptuaires : histoire du costume et de l'ameublement et des arts industries qui s'y rattachent / sous la direction de Hangard-Maugé, dessins de Clus Ciappori ; introduction générale et texte explicatif par Ch. Louandre ; impressions en couleurs par Hangard-Maugé.
Charles Leopold Louandre (1812-1882)
Category
Books
Date
1857 - 1858
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085481
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. : col. ill. ; 29-30 cm. Bookseller's pencil note, price and code on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "4 vols 12/10/-" and "h/o/-". Bookseller's pencil notes and codes on rear free endpaper in vol. 1: "n/o/-", "4 [brackets] 2 vol texte 2 vol. pl.". Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 2 (plates): compliments slip from Brown's Antiquarian Book Shop, 87 High Street, Eton with manuscript note on verso: "Contains Prayers for Gunpowder Plot / King Charles the Martyr / King's Birth". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown in all vols.: 'W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. / Booksellers (New & Second-hand) / Cambridge, England'. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco; marbled paper over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Ch. Louandre / Les arts somptuaires' and 'Texte [-Planches] 1[-2]'; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers; green ribbon marker in vols. 1-2 (text).
Makers and roles
Charles Leopold Louandre (1812-1882), author Ciappori, Claudius Joseph, 1882-1887 or 1888, original artist Hangard-Maugé, Etienne Isidore, active 1855-1872, editor Ferdinand Seré (1818-1855), editor