Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus, dessines d'apres nature, graves et colories
Subtitle: accompagnes d'une notice historique sur les moeurs, usages, coutumes, religions, fetes, supplices, funerailles, sciences et arts, commerce, etc. de chaque peuple
By: rediges par Sylvain Marechal
Contributors: Deterville, Jean-FrancŒois-Pierre, 1766-1842, bookseller; Boiste, Pierre Claude Victoire, 1765-1824, printer
Edition: Seconde ©♭dition, revue et corrig©♭e
Publisher: Chez Deterville, Libraire, rue du Battoir, n℗ʻ16, pres celle de l'Eperon
Published: 1788
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Ethnic costume; Early works to 1800; Clothing and dress; Costume; Pictorial works
Other titles: Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples.; Costumes de tous les peuples.
Notes: Plates hand-colored.

Half-title: Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples.

Spine title: Costumes de tous les peuples.

Signatures: v.1: A-Íı [-I8] Ḱı [-K1] L-T́ı V́þ.

Signatures: v.2: A-Ýı.

Signatures: v.3: A-Źı [-Z8]

Signatures: v.4: A-V́ı X́þ.

In French.

Boston Public Library (Fine Arts) copy rebound in volumes 1-3, while volume 4 retains its original binding. Volumes 1-3 bound in purple-gray cloth over boards, with spine title, decorative bars, and volume numeration stamped in gilt along spine. Volume 4 bound in leather over boards with marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves. Front and back covers include gilt decorative devices, in the form of a grapevine, along head-, tail-, fore-, and spine-edge. Spine includes gilt bars and decorative devices, and three black leather panels with the spine title and volume numeration in gilt. Front pastedown of volumes 1-3 include ex libris (book plate) of the Boston Public Library, while volume 4 includes an older ex libris of the Boston Public Library which identifies the copy as purchased with "the income of the Scholfield bequests." All four volumes include a perforated stamp on the title page of the Public Library of the City of Boston. Each plate includes the stamp, in red ink, of the Boston Public Library.