250 - Normandy - LA MÉSANGÈRE (Pierre de) & LANTÉ (Louis-Marie). Women’s Costumes of the Pays de Caux and Several Other Parts of the Former Province of Normandy. Paris, Eudes, [1885]. Folio (348 x 277 mm), 2 unnumbered folios, 10 pages, 1 unnumbered folio, 105 plates, purple glazed half-calf, decorated ribbed spine, gilt roulette on the covers (contemporary binding).

Normandy - LA MÉSANGÈRE (Pierre de) & LANTÉ (Louis-Marie). Women’s Costumes of the Pays de Caux and Several Other Parts of the Former Province of Normandy. Paris, Eudes, [1885]. Folio (348 x 277 mm), 2 unnumbered folios, 10 pages, 1 unnumbered folio, 105 plates, purple glazed half-calf, decorated ribbed spine, gilt roulette on the covers (contemporary binding). New illustrated edition featuring 105 plates drawn primarily by Lanté and engraved by Gatine, colored and mounted on tabs. This copy is enhanced with 2 loose plates (Costume of Saint-Lô and Costume drawn at the fair in St. Gorgon, near Rouen). The frontispiece title bears the inscription "One hundred and five costumes from the departments of the Lower Seine, Calvados, Manche, and Orne." Minor scratches on the covers, several repaired tabs, small pinholes on the two additional plates and on a few folios; otherwise a fine copy. (Colas, 1772).