[Débucourt], Modes et manières du jour à Paris, Paris, 1798-1808

[DÉBUCOURT, LOUIS PHILIBERT]

Modes et manières du jour à Paris, à la fin du 18ême Siècle et au Commencement de 19ême. [Paris: Bureau du Journal des Dames, 1798-1808]

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (205 x 132mm.), engraved title, 52 colour-printed engraved plates, later three-quarter morocco

RARE COLOUR-PRINTED COSTUME PLATES. APBC lists just one copy at auction, in 1986. 

"In his prime… Debucourt (1755-1832) ranked as the supreme master of engravings printed in color. He was already an accomplished genre painter in 1785 when he perfected his process of printing in color with five successive coppers, which enabled him to achieve in his prints the delicacy, the suavity, and the freshness of painting itself" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 146).

LITERATURE:

Colas 814; Cohen-De Ricci 275; not in Lipperheide

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