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PARIS. -- [Collection des drapeaux faits dans les soixante districts de Paris en juillet 1789. Paris: n.d.].
4° (280 x 205mm). Without text. 60 FINE HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES OF NATIONAL GUARDSMEN HOLDING FLAGS, SOME HEIGHTENED IN GILT, attributed to Moreau le jeune, plates 1-32 titled by hand using stencils, 33-47 & 49-60 with engraved titles; ?extra-illustrated with an engraved emblematic frontispiece by Dambrun after Moreau le jeune. (Small outer marginal tear to plate 34.) Contemporary mottled calf (extremities rubbed).
A finely executed set, with four related prints loosely inserted (i.e. an avant-lettre copy of the 2nd state of the frontispiece; an uncoloured copy of plate 6; and 2 examples of a plate showing the flag displayed in plate 4 in action. Cohen-de Ricci 248.
4° (280 x 205mm). Without text. 60 FINE HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES OF NATIONAL GUARDSMEN HOLDING FLAGS, SOME HEIGHTENED IN GILT, attributed to Moreau le jeune, plates 1-32 titled by hand using stencils, 33-47 & 49-60 with engraved titles; ?extra-illustrated with an engraved emblematic frontispiece by Dambrun after Moreau le jeune. (Small outer marginal tear to plate 34.) Contemporary mottled calf (extremities rubbed).
A finely executed set, with four related prints loosely inserted (i.e. an avant-lettre copy of the 2nd state of the frontispiece; an uncoloured copy of plate 6; and 2 examples of a plate showing the flag displayed in plate 4 in action. Cohen-de Ricci 248.