Album pittoresque du nord : tableaux des costumes, moeurs et usages des paysans de la Suède / par C. Forssell, premier graveur du roi.

Forssell, C. (Christian), 1777-1852, Album pittoresque du nord , 1838

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Creator:: Forssell, C. (Christian), 1777-1852.
Title:: Album pittoresque du nord : tableaux des costumes, moeurs et usages des paysans de la Suède / par C. Forssell, premier graveur du roi.
Alternate 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 Manuscripts
GT1177 .F67 1838+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Information
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3317160
Classification:: Books
Notes:: "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.
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. Costume, 1092
Brunet, v. II, p. 1346
Lipperheidesche 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.
Subject Terms:: Asher, A. -- Publisher.
Clothing and dress -- Sweden.
Feister, C. -- Printer.
Liechtensteinianis -- Bookplate.
Nathusius, Ph., -- Bookplate.
Sweden -- Description and travel.
Sweden -- Social life and customs.
Form/Genre:: Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1838.
Contributors:: Forssell, C. (Christian), 1777-1852, engraver.
Sandberg, J. G. (Johan Gustaf), 1782-1854, ill.
Grafström, A. (Anders), 1790-1870.
Asher, A. (Adolf), 1800-1853, publisher.
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