Librairie Gründ, Paris n.d. [1926]
4to, 4 page Introduction & 64 black & white loose b/w photographic plates (complete) in a folder with ties; Folder is brown paper over boards, with fabric spine, black titles on front and spine. Photographic plates of lacework [dentelles] from the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Paris 1925. Librairie Gründ, also known as "Les éditions Gründ " was a French publishing house started in 1880 by Ernest Gründ and Émile Maguet, specialising in works about art. This work is more commonly found in an edition published in 1926 by A. Levy; there is no title or copyr... View More...
1st ed., 4to, illustrated stiff wrappers, plastic comb binding. Unpaginated.
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One of a series of annual volumes published in conjunction with an annual ball, and New York, Artists Equity Association. From the preface: "This is Volume 5 of Improvisations. First conceived in 1950 from an idea by Julio de Diego, Improvisations has been accepted as a novel and original medium by advertisers in sympathy with the ideals of Artists Equity Association. The member-artists who illustrated the journal were selected by the advertisers and were given complete freedom of expression. Each page was des... View More...
First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper)
Imperial 4to, ¾ cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFET.
171 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette on India paper and 20 colored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The color plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; frontispiece of Napoleon in uniform on horseback. The last 80 pp. are a list of all the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1813, the composition of the Guard on Elba Island, text of the decrees relat... View More...
Published by Isaac Friedenwald, Lithographer & Printer, Baltimore, 1888
Philadelphia: Depot of the Quartermaster's Department, 1888.
First edition, large 4to, pp. [6]; text in triple column; lettered in gilt on upper cover; a very good, sound and clean copy.
First edition. Compiled by direction of the Secretary of War under the Supervision of the Quartermaster General and Inspector General. Large 4to. Lithographic title page, [6] text pages, 12 color chromolithographic plates showing the uniformed men at work and play, plus 13 b/w photo-lithograph plates of uniform decorations and ele... View More...
[Costume] F. Depech / Hippolyte LeComteCostumes Civil et Militaires de la Monarchie Francaise depuis 1200 jusqu'a 1820 [Civil and Military Costumes of the French Monarch from 1200 to 1820]An incomplete set of 80 lithographs depicting the robes and costumes worn by French aristocracy, clergy, and judiciary from the 13th - 19th centuries. From a series of 380 lithographs executed by Hippolyte Le Comte and published 1820-21 by Francois Delpech. Delpech operated the most popular lithographic print shop in Paris; LeComte was a French painter best known for his large scale historical paintings and... View More...
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