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)