Combet & Cie

Illustrated edition with 192 color plates of military uniforms, chiefly from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, after watercolors by Job (see Colas I, 1549).

Texts by various members of La Sabretache.

Contemporary bindings in cherry red morocco-grain half shagreen, spines with five raised bands framed by black fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edges, original wrappers preserved.

The illustrated plates are distributed as follows: in the first volume, 48 hand-colored plates numbered and captioned on their tissue guards; in the second, 48 unnumbered color plates; in the third, 48 unnumbered color plates; and in the fourth, 48 unnumbered color plates.

Complete set of all that appeared in La Sabretache, consisting of 48 issues each containing 4 color plates.

Themes of military life, patriotism, and even nationalism were the hallmark of Jacques Onfroy de Bréville (1858-1931), an illustrator whose vocation was initially thwarted.

A handsome set uniformly bound in contemporary bindings.

Edition illustrated with color images by Maurice Leloir.
Publisher's full green cloth binding, smooth spine, first cover illustrated with a polychrome plate depicting Cardinal Richelieu brandishing a sword, edges gilt, endpapers and pastedowns of blue paper marginally discolored without gravity, binding signed Poënsin.
Gift inscription in pen from a previous owner as a present.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on China paper, the only deluxe copies with 50 on Japan paper
Work illustrated with 40 magnificent watercolors by Maurice Leloir including 34 full-page and 2 double-page, printed in chromotypography.
Publisher's binding in full royal blue percaline, smooth unlettered spine, front cover ornamented with a large polychrome and gilt plaque on the upper board depicting Louis XIV on horseback haloed by the sun, gilt paper endpapers, corners very slightly bumped, binding signed Engel.
The blue silk ribbons are damaged and missing from the right margin of the boards.
Bookplate pasted on one pastedown.
Handsome copy.