Galerie française de femmes célèbres par leurs talens, leur rang ou leur beauté. - 1827 1.st edition 70 hand-colored full page plates
by Lanté / Gatine / La Mésangère
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Paris: Chez L'éditeur, Boulevard Montmartre No. 1, 1927. 1st. edition. Half morocco over marbled boards. very good/no dj as issued. Paris, Chez L'éditeur, Boulevard Montmartre No. 1.1927, First edition. Folio (13 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 33 x 24 cm.). Letterpress half-title, letterpress title. List of plates. .Complete with all seventy full page hand-colored plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine, each with a leaf of explanatory text opposite the plate.
Contemporary 1/2 red morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilded decorations, title and publication year. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to boards, lower corners bumped. Light scattered foxing mainly to margins to some plates. A very nice complete suite, in very pure colors, preserved in its elegant decorated binding of the period. First edition of the main historical work dedicated to the famous women of historical and literary France, including queens, princesses, duchesses, mistresses, muses, fictional characters, salon hostesses, maids of honour and even witches. The illustration consists of 70 full page plates, very well engraved and admirably colored at the time with gold highlights.70 sheets of notices and historical commentaries by La Mésangère accompany each of the plates. These plates represent French women's costumes from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries. This edition is considered to be the first printing," says Colas in his Bibliography devoted to costumes. Here, as an example, is the list of famous women depicted: Hermengarde. Héloïse. Jeanne de Sancerre. Marguerite de Beaujeu. Marguerite de Flandre. Laure de Noves. Laure de Noves (dite la Belle Laure). Anne, Dauphine d'Auvergne. Suivante de la Dauphine d'Auvergne. Isabeau de Bavière. 1e Suivante d'Isabeau de Bavière. 2e Suivante d'Isabeau de Bavière. Jacqueline de la Grange. Dame de la famille des Ursins. Euriant (femme du comte de Nevers). Marie d'Anjou. Isabelle d'Ecosse. Marie de Hainaut (femme de Louis Ier, etc.). Dame de la cour de René d'Anjou. Michelle de Vitry. Agnès Sorel. Anne de Bretagne. La Reine Claude. Eléonore d'Autriche. Marguerite de Valois. Marguerite de France. Dame de la cour de François Ier. Jeune Personne du temps de François Ier. Françoise de Foix (Comtesse de Châteaubriand). La belle Féronière. Diane de Poitiers. La belle Paule. Louise de Savoie. Marie d'Angleterre. Fille d'honneur de Marie d'Angleterre. Anne de Boulen. Anne de Pisseleu (Duchesse d'Estampes). Catherine de Médicis. Mademoiselle de Limeuil. Elisabeth (fille de Henri II). Marie Stuart. Louise de Lorraine. Marguerite de Lorraine. Marie Touchet. Demoiselle en masque (règne de Henri III). Renée de Rieux Châteauneuf. Lingère (règne de Louis III). Marguerite de France (femme de Henri IV). Gabrielle d'Estrées. Eléonore Galigaï. Dame de la cour de Henri IV. La Marquise de Verneuil. Charlotte de Montmorency. Marion de Lorme. Ninon de l'Enclos. Marie de Hautefort. La Duchesse de Longueville. Madame de Sévigné. Madame de Grignan. Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche. Mademoiselle de La Fayette. Mademoiselle de la Vallière. Madame de Montespan. Mademoiselle de Fontanges. Madame de Maintenon. La Duchesse du Maine. La Duchesse de Bourgogne. Mademoiselle d'Orléans. La Camargo. Sophie Arnould.
Vicar, IV, 1361; Lipperheide, I, 1077; Barber, II, 519;.
Contemporary 1/2 red morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilded decorations, title and publication year. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to boards, lower corners bumped. Light scattered foxing mainly to margins to some plates. A very nice complete suite, in very pure colors, preserved in its elegant decorated binding of the period. First edition of the main historical work dedicated to the famous women of historical and literary France, including queens, princesses, duchesses, mistresses, muses, fictional characters, salon hostesses, maids of honour and even witches. The illustration consists of 70 full page plates, very well engraved and admirably colored at the time with gold highlights.70 sheets of notices and historical commentaries by La Mésangère accompany each of the plates. These plates represent French women's costumes from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries. This edition is considered to be the first printing," says Colas in his Bibliography devoted to costumes. Here, as an example, is the list of famous women depicted: Hermengarde. Héloïse. Jeanne de Sancerre. Marguerite de Beaujeu. Marguerite de Flandre. Laure de Noves. Laure de Noves (dite la Belle Laure). Anne, Dauphine d'Auvergne. Suivante de la Dauphine d'Auvergne. Isabeau de Bavière. 1e Suivante d'Isabeau de Bavière. 2e Suivante d'Isabeau de Bavière. Jacqueline de la Grange. Dame de la famille des Ursins. Euriant (femme du comte de Nevers). Marie d'Anjou. Isabelle d'Ecosse. Marie de Hainaut (femme de Louis Ier, etc.). Dame de la cour de René d'Anjou. Michelle de Vitry. Agnès Sorel. Anne de Bretagne. La Reine Claude. Eléonore d'Autriche. Marguerite de Valois. Marguerite de France. Dame de la cour de François Ier. Jeune Personne du temps de François Ier. Françoise de Foix (Comtesse de Châteaubriand). La belle Féronière. Diane de Poitiers. La belle Paule. Louise de Savoie. Marie d'Angleterre. Fille d'honneur de Marie d'Angleterre. Anne de Boulen. Anne de Pisseleu (Duchesse d'Estampes). Catherine de Médicis. Mademoiselle de Limeuil. Elisabeth (fille de Henri II). Marie Stuart. Louise de Lorraine. Marguerite de Lorraine. Marie Touchet. Demoiselle en masque (règne de Henri III). Renée de Rieux Châteauneuf. Lingère (règne de Louis III). Marguerite de France (femme de Henri IV). Gabrielle d'Estrées. Eléonore Galigaï. Dame de la cour de Henri IV. La Marquise de Verneuil. Charlotte de Montmorency. Marion de Lorme. Ninon de l'Enclos. Marie de Hautefort. La Duchesse de Longueville. Madame de Sévigné. Madame de Grignan. Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche. Mademoiselle de La Fayette. Mademoiselle de la Vallière. Madame de Montespan. Mademoiselle de Fontanges. Madame de Maintenon. La Duchesse du Maine. La Duchesse de Bourgogne. Mademoiselle d'Orléans. La Camargo. Sophie Arnould.
Vicar, IV, 1361; Lipperheide, I, 1077; Barber, II, 519;.
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- Title
- Galerie française de femmes célèbres par leurs talens, leur rang ou leur beauté. - 1827 1.st edition 70 hand-colored full page plates
- Author
- Lanté / Gatine / La Mésangère
- Format/Binding
- Half morocco over marbled boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. edition
- Publisher
- Chez L'éditeur, Boulevard Montmartre No. 1
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1927
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- Artbooks; Illustrated Books; French Books;
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