Collection raisonnée des uniformes Français, de 1814 a 1824.
Horace Vernet (Paris 1789 - Paris 1863)
Category
Books
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3094637
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 6, [76] p., [48] leaves of plates ; 4to. Uniformly bound and shelved as a set with 'Collection des uniformes des Armées Françaises, de 1791 à 1814' (Paris, 1822). Plates numbered in pencil on verso. 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 II 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