Accession number
PML 15545-48, 15569-70
Published
Paris : Chez les sieures Esnauts & Rapilly, marchands d'estampes, [1779]-1781.
Notes
A collection of plates originally issued, 1778-80, in "cahiers" of 6. The plates issued from 1781 to 1788 were presumably never published as volumes.
Vol. 1 (1 l., iv, 40 p., pl. [1]-96, 1 l.) has engraved t.p.: Gallerie des modes et costumes français ... colorés par ... Madame Le Beau ... Vol. 2 (48 p., pl. 97-192) has printed t.p.
Descriptive text at the beginning of each volume by G.F.R. Molé.
The engravings are by Nicolas Dupin, Dupin fils, Pierre Adrien Le Beau, Étienne Claude Voysard, J. Aveline, Gaillard, Pélissier, Pelicier, Vossinik, Janinet, P. Bacquoy, Baquoi fils, Duhamel, Le Bas, Le Roy and Patas, after Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, Claude Louis Desrais and Jean Baptiste Martin, Watteau and Watteau fils, St. Aubin.
Morgan copy contains 359 of the 408 plates of the signatures A-Z, aa-zz, &&, aaa-yyy. Plates by Bosset, Mondhare & others, 80 in number, and 130 duplicates.
Signatures: v. 1: A-T⁶ (114 plates & orig. design f R 99); v. 2: U-Z, aa-jj, mm, nn (plates 115-194); v. 3: oo-tt, w-&&, aaa-fff, hhh-zzz, mmm-yyy (plates 195-342; consecutive numbering), 3 plates); v. 4: Plates from various other sequences, numbered 346-416. Also v. 5: duplicates, etc., 136 plates (417-561); v. 6: 22 plates (562-583).
Binder's title: "Recueil de planches sur le costume françois".
Vol. 1 (1 l., iv, 40 p., pl. [1]-96, 1 l.) has engraved t.p.: Gallerie des modes et costumes français ... colorés par ... Madame Le Beau ... Vol. 2 (48 p., pl. 97-192) has printed t.p.
Descriptive text at the beginning of each volume by G.F.R. Molé.
The engravings are by Nicolas Dupin, Dupin fils, Pierre Adrien Le Beau, Étienne Claude Voysard, J. Aveline, Gaillard, Pélissier, Pelicier, Vossinik, Janinet, P. Bacquoy, Baquoi fils, Duhamel, Le Bas, Le Roy and Patas, after Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, Claude Louis Desrais and Jean Baptiste Martin, Watteau and Watteau fils, St. Aubin.
Morgan copy contains 359 of the 408 plates of the signatures A-Z, aa-zz, &&, aaa-yyy. Plates by Bosset, Mondhare & others, 80 in number, and 130 duplicates.
Signatures: v. 1: A-T⁶ (114 plates & orig. design f R 99); v. 2: U-Z, aa-jj, mm, nn (plates 115-194); v. 3: oo-tt, w-&&, aaa-fff, hhh-zzz, mmm-yyy (plates 195-342; consecutive numbering), 3 plates); v. 4: Plates from various other sequences, numbered 346-416. Also v. 5: duplicates, etc., 136 plates (417-561); v. 6: 22 plates (562-583).
Binder's title: "Recueil de planches sur le costume françois".
Description
4 v. & 2 v. : plates.
Binding
Mottled calf (vols. 1-4) and red morocco (vols. 5-6).
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