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HENRY L'EVÊQUE - 1769-1832, Costume of Portugal, L'ÉVEQUE, Henri.- Costume of Portugal.- [London: Colnaghi and Edmund Lloyd, 1812-1814].- [1, 52] f.: [50] gravuras color.; 35 cm.- E. Henri l ' Éveque (1769-1832), painter, watercolourist, traveller and writer, a native of Geneva, has been several times in Portugal, graphically recording, among others, numerous episodes of the French invasions. Its Costume de Potugal is considered the most beautiful book of Portuguese customs published during the 19th century and an important source for the iconography of the Portuguese outfit of its time. No cover leaf, that was never printed, editing consists of a leaf with the title, followed by another with a printed dedication to counselor, Minister and Secretary of State Antonio de Araújo de Azevedo, 1st Count of Barca (1754-1817) and a third leaf with the index of the engravings in Portuguese (second and third leaves are missing in this copy , as indeed in many others). Followed by 50 numbered, hand coloured aquatints, interspersed by 52 leaves with bilingual texts, in English and French, descriptive of their images. The engravings are very clean and well preserved; engraving No. 39 presents the outer margin a little shorter. Ex-libris of Mario Carmona. Recent half brown chagrin entire binding with an exquisite gold decoration between raised bands. Duarte de Sousa, 422.