Authorship attributed to Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur by BN and Cioranescu.

Originally published in Paris, 1784, and here reissued with new title pages dated 1788.

Each volume also contains an illustrated, colored, engraved title page dated 1787; each engraved title refers to a specific continent.

Complete collation of this work is given by Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode / by René Colas, Paris, 1933.

Running head appears on most verso pages: Moeurs et coutumes.

Probably issued in parts or fascicles; each part with separate paging or unpaged, accompanied by one to four colored plates; each part also has its own register.

Distributed throughout the four volumes are descriptions and hand-colored illustrations of costumes of the peoples of America, from Greenland to Patagonia.

Includes some selections of Indian language vocabularies: v. 1, "Moeurs et coutumes des Indiens, habitant les déserts du Chili" gives a small glossary of words in an undetermined language on p. 6; v. 1, "Notice historique sur les habitans de la Baye Chacktoole, a l'entrée de Norton" gives a small glossary of words in an Eskimo language on p. 3-4; v. 3, "Notice sur les Mexicains" gives a small glossary of words in the Nahuatl language on p. 12; v. 3, "Moeurs et coutumes des habitans de Nootka" gives a small glossary of words in the Nootka language on p. 13-14; v. 3, "Moeurs et coutumes des Oonalashkains" gives a small glossary of words in an Eskimo language on p. 8; v. 3, "Moeurs et coutumes des Indiens de Quito, province du Perou" gives a small glossary of words in the Quechua language on p. 13-14.

Includes indexes at end of vol. 4.

Quérard III: p. 453.

Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 31955.

Colas, R. Costume et de la mode, 1290.

Colas, R. Costume et de la mode, 1291.

Colas, R. Costume et de la mode, 1979.

John Carter Brown Library copy has the individual sections and the hand-colored illustrations spread throughout the four volumes in a purely alphabetical sequence.

John Carter Brown Library copy vol. 1 also contains two additional printed title pages dated 1784; the imprint of the second matches that given by Colas, Bibliographie générale, 1290; the imprint of the first 1784 title page is different.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards.