81 French costumes from the 13the to the 18the century.
Precious copy with all the plates a bêutifully hand-colored
et illuminated at the time.
Bévy, Abbé Charles-Joseph de. History of the inaugurations of kings, emperors, and other sovereigns of the universe; from their origin to the present. Followed by a summary of the state of the Arts & Sciences under êch Reign: of the principal facts, morals, customs & the most remarkable usages of the French, from Pepin to Louis XVI.
Paris, Moutard, Queen’s Librarian, 1776.
Octavo of xvi pp., 559 pp., (5) pp., 14 full-page plates out of text. Bound in full porphyry calf of the period, triple gold fillet around the boards, spine with raised bands and gilt fleurons, green morocco title piece, gilt fillet on edges, gilt edges. Binding of the period.
195 x 123 mm.
Original edition published on the occasion of the coronation ceremonies of Louis XVI.
Sander 138; Saffroy, I, 15227; Barbier, II, 755; Brunet, VI, 1310; Lipperheide 2479.
“Born at Saint-Hilaire nêr Orléans, on November 4, 1738, Charles-Joseph Bévy, Benedictine of the congregation of Saint-Maur and the house of Saint-Denis, was in his thirty-eighth yêr, when he published a work entitled: ‘History of the inaugurations of kings, emperors, and other sovereigns of the universe‘ with engravings, octavo. This book, to which the recent coronation of Louis XVI lent timely interest, attracted the benevolent attention of the Count of Saint-Germain to the author.”
The work was noted and êrned the Benedictine Dom Bévy (1738-1830) the position of historian of France for Flanders and Hainaut.
“14 figures comprising 81 costumes, drawn by Michel Rieg, engraved by Ingouf and Trière. ” (Cohen, 145).
“These 14 plates represent about 80 French costumes from the 13the to the 18the century“. (Colas, I, 320).
Sumptuous copy, probably unique, where all the plates have been magnificently hand-colored at the time and enhanced with gold.
No bibliographer was aware of such a colored copy.
