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[HAND-COLORED PLATES]. [FASHION]. 78 Bound Hand-Colored Plates of French Fashion from Costumes Parisienes and Modes de Paris. [Paris:] 1835-36. 8vo. Approximately 8 ? x 5 ½”. Plates on rectos only, versos blank. Bound in contemporary marbled boards (later (?) plain brown spine, spine damaged and partially perished, joints worn and starting, boards toned, worn, endleaves toned and foxed, some toning, occasional foxing, soiling to plates). Good. An excellent depiction of post-Napoleonic French fashion, during the constitutional monarchy of Louis Philippe I.