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Lot 68
[Color-Plate Books] (Peake, Richard Brinsley). Costume Caracteristique de France... First Edition
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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[Color-Plate Books] (Peake, Richard Brinsley). The Characteristic Costume of France; From Drawings Made on the Spot, With Appropriate Descriptions
London: William Fearman, 1819 (sheets watermarked J. Whatman, 1818-21). 4to. viii, (iv), 37 pp. Title-pages and text printed in French and in English. Illustrated with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 18 hand-colored aquatint plates. Contemporary three-quarter crimson straight grain morocco over marbled paper-colored boards, front board nearly detached but holding, extremities worn, boards rubbed and worn; armorial book-plate on front paste-down; light offsetting from plates; scattered soiling and spotting to text and plates; open tear of bottom of Plate I; foxing to rear endpapers. Abbey, Travel 87
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