Shelfmark
Ie3.1
Author
Rechberg, Charles Comte de.
Title
Les peuples de la Russie, ou description des moeurs, usages et costumes des diverses nations de l'empire de Russie, accompagnée de figures coloriées.
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris : de l'imprimerie de D. Colas, 1812.
Physical description
2v plates : ill. ; Fo.
Note
Pagination: [6], 13, [61]p 48 plates; [4], [66]p 48 plates.
Note
Dedicatory epistle signed by the author.
Note
Revised by G.B. Depping.
Note
Plates captioned in Russian and French, from drawings by E. Karnejeff; with original protective tissues; issued in three states: uncoloured, coloured and hand-coloured.
Note
Hand-coloured plates.
Note
Rechberg met the artist Karnejeff and arranged for the printing and publication of his sketches made on travels throughout Russia between 1802 and 1805. They were prepared for engraving in Munich and eventually engraved by Scotnikoff, Manz, Melnikoff, Coqueret, Hess, Gros et al, for printing in Paris. Rechberg's text was edited for publication by Depping for this work and for his "Voyage pittoresque...".
Provenance
Given to Eton College by Nicholas Kessler in 2008.
Binding
19th century green half roan, marbled boards, 20th century rebacking, new endpapers, 19th century binder's ticket re-laid to front pastedowns: Milh. Ermold, Dr. Maj. des Königs. hof=Buchbinder u. Lederarbeiter, in Hannover.
Copy-specific note
Previously I.Kes
Subject
Costume Russia.
Subject
Ethnology Russia.
Subject
Russia Pictorial works.
Subject
Russia Social life and customs.
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France Paris.
Identifier
B18699