Le Costume Historique
Librairie de Firmin Didot et Cie. 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 6 uniformly bound volumes with 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards. Titles and compartments on spines in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. This is the 'petite' first edition. Illustrated with 500 plates, 300 in vivid chromolithography printed by Didot, and 200 in camaieu (monochrome) - complete. Unmarked bindings. This edition is known as the small or 'petite' edition. The same text and plates were published at the same time in a larger edition, folio size, usually described as the 'grande edition'. The only difference is in the size of the page and color of the paper. Plates are printed from the same lithograph plates, but in the 'grande edition' they are on titled paper. (Hiler & Hiler, p. 732.) Quite a handsome production of an important work in fine bindings. Hiler 732; Colas 2471; Lipperheide 93. Fine. All bindings holding together fine, but each with visible wear at the joints, yet no tears or breaks (yet). Top of 1st volume with chip in leather. Each of volumes 2-6 contain 100 plates each, mone single page, some double-page. Very Good. Item #12284
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