Swedish folk costumes 1836

SWEDISH FOLK COSTUMES 1836. FORSSELL, CHRISTIAN DIDRIK (text) & SANDBERG, JOHAN GUSTAF (ill.). Une année en Suède. Ou Tableaux des costumes, moeurs et usages des paysans de la Suède, suivis des sites et monumens historiques les plus remarquables. Text + plates. Stockholm, L. J. Hjerta, 1836. Folio. 280 x 220 mm. (4), 116, (4) pp; 48 loose handcoloured lithographed plates. 1 sheet of music at the end of text volume. Contemporary clothspine with worn and soiled publisher's printed boards. Text part uncut, rather loose in binding and with occasional foxing. Plates loose, occasional minor foxing, stains on plate 32 (chateau de Calmar). 2 volumes in somewhat stained and worn later cloth-hinged cardboard box with damaged label of green morocco. Colas 1282; Lippeheide 1054. The plates depict Swedish landscapes, buildings and peasants in traditional provincial costumes. First published in Swedish in 1827.