Forssell, C. (Christian), 1777-1852, Album pittoresque du nord , 1838
- Title(s):
- Album pittoresque du nord : tableaux des costumes, moeurs et usages des paysans de la Suède / par C. Forssell, premier graveur du roi.
- Additional Title(s):
Bijou du nord
Album du nord 1838- Published/Created:
- Londres ; A. Asher, 1838.
& Berlin : A. Asher, 1838. - Physical Description:
- [4], 23, [1] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsGT1177 .F67 1838+ Copy 1 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]Rare Books and ManuscriptsGT1177 .F67 1838+ Copy 2 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3317160
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Added engraved title page: Le bijou du nord.
Cover title, stamped in gilt: Album du nord 1838.
Engravings by C. Forssell; after Johan Gustav Sandberg.
Descriptive text by A. Grafström.
"Berlin. De l'imprimerie de C. Feister."--P. [24].
Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 1092
Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. II, p. 1346
Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, Germany). Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.), Haa 20
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is bound in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth. Bookplate: Ex-Libris Liechtensteinianis. Copy 2 bound in publisher's embossed green cloth, with title stamped in gilt. Bookplate: Ph. Nathusius.
"A re-issue of part of the plates by Sandberg and a revision of the text from the author's Une année en Suède ... Stockholm, 1836."--NUC pre-56. - Subject Terms:
- Asher, A. -- Publisher.Clothing and dress -- Sweden.Feister, C. -- Printer.Liechtenstein, House of -- Bookplate.Nathusius, Ph., -- Bookplate.Sweden -- Description and travel.Sweden -- Social life and customs.
- Form/Genre:
- Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1838.
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