Philibert-Louis DEBUCOURT
Modes et manières du jour à Paris, à la fin du 18e siècle et au commencement du 19e. Collection de 52 gravures coloriées.[Modes and Manners of the Day in Paris]
Au Bureau du Journal des Dames, Rue Montmartre, N° 183, au coin du Boulevart|A Paris s.d. (1798-1808)|10.80 x 17.60 cm|52 planches en feuilles montées sous marie-louise, en étui
Set of 52 original plates, etched and enhanced with watercolours at the time, numbered 1 to 52, mounted in pairs under mats.
Leaves in red half calf slipcase (early 20th century), red shagreen boards.
The plates vary in size (10.8 x 17.6 cm to 28.1 x 18.8 cm) and paper stock, as was often the case with La Mésangère's publications. Unbound engraved title on a bifolium, printed separately, absent from most copies. It is replaced here by its identical reprint by Gosselin (1893-1903), on antique watermarked paper and bears the publisher's 'G' mark, characteristic of this reprint a century later. All the plates, however, are in their first edition, without the G mar
€10,000