Collection des uniformes des Armées Françaises, de 1791 à 1814, / dessinés par Horace Vernet et Eug. Lami.
Horace Vernet (Paris 1789 - Paris 1863)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3091371
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], XV, [197] p., [101] leaves of plates ; 4to. Uniformly bound and shelved as a set with 'Collection raisonnée des uniformes Français, de 1814 a 1824' (Paris, 1825). Pencil note on collation of both vols. on rear free endpaper. Plates numbered in pencil on verso; unnumbered leaves foliated in pencil. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing both vols. (price: £60); (2) typescript catalogue card. 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)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'H. Vernet & E. Lami / Uniformes des Armées Françaises I 1791-1814'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; green silk ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Horace Vernet (Paris 1789 - Paris 1863), artist Eugène Louis Lami (Paris 1800 - Paris 1890), artist