254 - JOB (ONFROY DE BRÉVILLE, Jacques, known as). BOUCHOT.

JOB (ONFROY DE BRÉVILLE, Jacques, known as). BOUCHOT. The Epic, or French Military Costume. Original watercolors and drawings by Job. Paris, Société Française d’Editions d’Art, 1898. Small folio. Richly illustrated cardboard binding in the publisher’s Empire green morocco (some slight wear). Description: First edition. A beautiful publication illustrated with color plates printed on serpentine paper and numerous black-and-white figures in the text, engraved by Raymond, Ducourtioux, and Huillard, depicting military uniforms from the Gauls to the Second Empire. A sumptuously illustrated first edition covering French military campaigns and uniforms, with an emphasis on Napoleon and the Imperial Grand Army. Covers adorned with allegorical decoration. EMPIRE. Included: CHEZELLES, H. de, Viscount. L’Homme de cheval. 3rd ed. Paris, Hachette, 1894. In-12, brown shagreen binding of the period. A fine copy. Handwritten note: “Given by the Count of Bestion? November 15, 1935.”