Author: PAUQUET Hippolyte & PAUQUET Polydore
Title: Modes et Costumes Historiques Etrangers. Dessines et Graves par Paquet Freres d'apres les Meilleurs Maitres de Chaque Epoque et les Documents les plus authentiques.
Description: Paris, Aux Bureaux des Modes et Costumes Historiques et Au Bureau de la Mode Artistique c.1868 [iv], 96 coloured lithographs on single pages, 4pp index 33x25, half blue morocco over marbled boards, 5 raised bands on spine, beautifully decorated in glt. Boards edge rubbed, and slightly bumped, pages slightly cockled, tissue guards not present, very attractive handwritten dedication dated 1876 on half title, contents very good thus. The second of two works issued by the Pauquets with a selection of 96 of their coloured plates; the other was wholly for French examples, while this covers the rest of the world, with examples from Europe, Africa and Asia. The binding is not original, but is very attractive; the absence of the tissue guards suggested a full and later rebinding. The dedication is to Maria d'Aguilar (Blackhall??) of Edinburgh from her unnamed husband; the unusual middle name might indicate a link to the early English rugby international Francis d'Aguilar, whose grandmother was called Maria, and whose uncle the explorer and author Richard Burton also had a sister of the same name.

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