L'ÉPOPÉE DU COSTUME MILITAIRE FRANÇAISTHE EPIC OF THE FRENCH MILITARY COSTUME

Text by Henri BouchotIllustrations by J.O.B.

Published by Société Française D'Éditions D'art / L. Henry May, Paris, ©1898

A First Edition of this lavishly produced history of French military campaigns and uniforms from the Gauls to the Second Empire, with emphasis on Napoleon and the Grand Imperial Army. 

Contents:

I. -War Harness of the Old Ancestors

II. –The Musketeers (XVI-XVIII centuries)

III. – The Marquises

IV. –The Sans-Culottes

V. – The Guard

VI. – The Great Army

VII. - Whites

VIII.– The Africans 

13 x 10.5 x 1.5. 302 pages

10 color plates, 175 monochrome engraved illustrations on almost every page, many hand-colored.

Red and Gold Banner embossed and gilded on leather cover, gold gilding on spine, gilded edges

beautiful endpapers in coral and green showing illustrations of French headgear

Shelf wear on cover, interior in very good condition, binding is strained but holding

engraved by M. Raymond and MM. Ducourtioux and Huillard

Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville (J.O.B.) was a well-known French illustrator who reproduced uniforms with extreme precision.

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(No. 8)