Le costume ou Essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l'antiquité, prouvé par les monuments.

Liège, J. F. Bassompierre, 1776

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4to: xxxi-[1]-411-[1] pp.; 51 pl.

19th-c. half-leather, gilt orn. flat spine, spr. edges (corners and joints rubbed). Nice copy.

First ed. of this model book for artists by the famous painter and neoclassicist A.C. Lens (1739-1822). 51 full-page engr. ill. by P. Martenasie, depicting 160 models.
Ref. Conlon 76:1191. - De Theux 649. - Colas 1828 (= Lipperheide 105). - Vinet 1812. - Dict. des peintres belges, p. 636.
Prov. Van Aerssen (armorial bookpl.).