Galerie des modes et costumes français, dessinés d'après nature, 1778-1787;
This is a 1912 Paris reprint by Paul Cornu, published by É. Lévy, of the late eighteenth-century Galerie des modes et costumes français, a series of hand-coloured plates showing French fashion from 1778 to 1787. The plates present full-length figures in dress, often with accessories and hats set in framed or ribboned compositions. A designer could take cut, layering and colour combinations from the dress, along with the ornate framing devices typical of period fashion prints.
