Unrecorded pricelist of Napoleonic War uniforms from Guérin's Parisian shop.

[Fashion] / [Napoleonic Wars]. Paris, ce [19 floreal] an 12. Guérin, fils, Brodeur, Successeur de Dufour, Boutonnier et Passementier Palais du Tribunat, No. 175, Galerie de La rue des Bons-Enfans, prés Le Marchand de Gauffres, ci-devant rue Cléry, oú sont maintenant ces ateliers. [Paris]: s.n., signed 19 Floréal Year 12 (i.e., 9 May 1804). 4to [37.9 x 24.3 cm], [2] ff. letterpress bifolium, with date completed in manuscript, a manuscript correction to the text, and signed by Guérin. Unbound. Some toning, spotting and wrinkling, with a 3 centimes paper tax ink stamp.  
 
 
Unrecorded (OCLC, KVK) 2-leaf pricelist advertising the cost of some 125 types and grades of French military uniform and related items for use by La Grande Armée in the first year of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15). The list, printed on thin laid paper, was distributed on 9 May 1804 (19 Floréal Year 12, according to the Revolutionary Calendar) by the Parisian brodeur Guérin, who signed the document at the end. Ephemeral material of this sort relating to military fashion in this period is today quite rare.  
 
Guérin, who calls himself the successor to the boutonnier-passementier Dufour, announces his address change to the rue des Bons-Enfans and assures potential clients that his work conforms to the new uniform “designs and regulations” adopted on 1 Vendémiaire, Year 12 (24 September 1803). There follows a list of uniform types descending in rank from Division General to 3rd class military doctors, surgeons and druggists, with details about uniforms’ various required cords, sashes, piping, insignia, pompoms, plumes, epaulettes, related horse trappings, etc., and with concluding sections listing buttons and blankets available at Guérin’s shop.
 
 
Not recorded in OCLC or KVK.
 
*Almanach du commerce de Paris, des départemens de la France et des principales villes du monde (1820), p. 134.