Types et uniformes l'Armée française / par Edouard Detaille ; texte par Jules Richard.
Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
Category
Books
Date
1885 - 1889
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101010
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. ; fol. Provenance: Nineteenth-century monogram in garter with crest bookplate (not in Franks): 'Donald McKay'. 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 half brown sheep; brown and black patterned cloth over boards; gilt stamped on upper boards (upper right corner): 'D. Mc K' [i.e. Donald McKay]; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt fillets on spines; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Jules Richard et E. Detaille / l'Armée française I[-II]' with individual list of contents for each vol.; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers; tricolour (green, red and yellow) ribbon marker in each vol. Binder's ink stamp on verso of front free endpapers: 'Pagnant'. Original paper wrappers retained.
Makers and roles
Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) , artist Jules Richard, author