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 3100857
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 6, [76] p., [48] leaves of plates ; 4to. Imperfect: lacks half-title, introduction (6 pp.) and 2 plates. "Table" [i.e. list of contents] bound in after title page. Bookseller's pencil notes on front and rear free endpapers. Pencil marks against entries on "Table" [i.e. list of contents] to count number of plates. List of French words with English translation in pencil on rear free endpaper. Provenance: Nineteenth-century seal armorial bookplate (Franks 30199): 'Edward Vernon Utterson'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: NIneteenth-century full calf; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border with small gilt stamped floral cornerpieces, blind triple fillet to form an inner border with small blind stapmed floral cornerpieces; sewn onto five raised bands; spine gilt; black spine labels: 'Costumes militaires' and 'Uniformes Français de 1814 a 1824'; gilt rolled board edges; double gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; green ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Horace Vernet (Paris 1789 - Paris 1863), illustrator Lami, Eugène Louis, 1800-1890, illustrator