247 - GUILLAUMOT (A.) and MONVAL. Costumes of the Comédie Française, 17th–18th Centuries. Paris, Lemonnyer, 1885. Large folio volume, red half-maroquin with corners (early 20th-century binding).

GUILLAUMOT (A.) and MONVAL. Costumes of the Comédie Française, 17th–18th Centuries. Paris, Lemonnyer, 1885. Large folio volume, red half-maroquin with corners (early 20th-century binding). A rare collection of 50 etchings based on original drawings by Auguste-Etienne Guillaumot Jr., each preceded by a leaf bearing the names of the actor, the character, the play, and the date of the performance. Preface by Georges Monval, archivist of the Comédie Française. This copy, entirely mounted on tabs, contains a half-title page and a title page printed on heavy paper, one black-and-white plate captioned “17th-century artist’s dressing room,” and 49 costume plates in two states—black-and-white and in color (except for the 31st, Molière: 2 versions in black), each preceded by its printed caption. A unique copy, enriched with 23 original watercolors of these costumes, most bearing the artist’s monogram with hand-drawn captions. Heavy foxing on the 4 pages of the preface; foxing on some of the drawings and plates.