Author: Bucquoy, Commandant E. L. (Le Passepoil).
Title: Le centenaire de l'armée belge, 1830-1930. (Le Passepoil). [WITH HAND-COLOURED PLATES].
Description: Starsbourg, Le Passepoil; Troyes, Imprimerie Coopérative de l'Aube, 1931. Hardcover. Quarto. Pp. 40. Plus 5 hand-coloured collotype plates, printed on thick card, tipped-in. With (full-page) line-drawn illustrations to text. In the original stiff wrappers, bound into full cloth hardcover. In mint condition. A superb copy. ~ Le passepoil, Bulletin périodique illustré de la Société d'Études des Uniformes. Numeros hors abonnement, numero 2, aout 1931. Published under the directorship of E. L. Bucquoy. With a fine set of plates. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. Richly hand-coloured. Rare. No other copies found on KVK nor OCLC worldwide. F-3 .

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