Henri Bouchot / Job [illustrateur] - L'épopée du costume militaire français - 1898

Henri Bouchot. The Epic of the French Military Uniform. Paris, Art Editions L.-Henri May, 1898, x-299 pp.

A folio volume (330x260 mm), bound in full brown morocco with long-grain, polychrome decoration on the front board, blind-stamped decoration on the back board, ornate spine, gilded head (publisher's binding of the period). Joints slightly rubbed at the headcaps otherwise a very fine copy. Interior in great freshness.

Original edition of this monograph devoted to the French military costume, in its superb publisher's binding from the period.

With 10 color plates illustrated by Job and numerous in-text illustrations