GEORGES DUPLESSIS (1834-1899) EDMOND LECHEVALLIER-CHEVIGNARD (1825-1902) Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 17th centuries

Drawn by E.Lechevallier-Chevignard, engraved by A.Didier, L.Flameng, F.Laguillermie, etc. With a historical and descriptive text by Georges Duplessis of the Bibliothèque Impériale. Tome 1er, Paris, Librairie d'Architecture de A.Lévy, M.DCCC.LXVII. (1867) In-4, 150 pp. First edition illustrated with gouache-painted or hand-watercoloured colour plates, printed on heavyweight vellum. Original boards with loose leaves. Faded boards, title label detached (preserved inside the book), some plates spotted, foxing. 34 x 25 x 6 cm Georges Duplessis, known as Gratet-Duplessis - French art historian and curator. A print historian, he ran the Bibliothèque nationale's print cabinet from 1885 until his death. He was a member of the Institut de France. Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard - French painter, engraver and decorator.