Clothing regulations for troops and war administrations of the Duchy of Warsaw [1810].

Warsaw 1810, In the Printing House of Wiktor Dabrowski. 12x18.5 cm, pp. 88, (1), appendices (2), period hardcover, half leather with gilt. Good condition (rubbing of the spine, rubbed gilt).

Pieces with very interesting provenances. On the backstrip two ex-librises: Aleksander Czolowski (historian, antiquarian, archivist, director of the Historical Museum of the City of Lviv and the National Museum in Lviv) and Andrzej Bruchnalski (painter, graphic artist, expert on the uniforms of the Polish army from the 17th century onward) . On the title page is the stamp of the 30th Infantry Regiment of the Grand Army, one of the French infantry regiments of the Napoleonic Wars period.
The regulations are preceded by a general order concerning the introduced regulations, signed by Joseph Poniatowski. The offered title is the primary source of information on the uniform of the Polish infantry, in the period between the victorious war with Austria and, as it was soon to turn out, the fateful Russian campaign. He describes the uniforms of all line formations, auxiliary services and even the administration of the Ministry of War, and does so in a way that, compared to earlier regulations, may seem downright petty to us. Of course, this time, too, it focuses primarily on the uniform of officers, but unlike its immediate predecessor, the March 1807 regulation, it also includes paragraphs on the uniforms of non-commissioned officers and simple soldiers. We should also recall that the custom of the time was to attach uniform specimens to the provision, in order to highlight any nuances of the new sorties that were not covered in the text. The regulation itself has fortunately been preserved to our times, and due to the marginal and often internally inconsistent nature of the iconographic accounts available to us, it provides a kind of reference point to track non-regulatory practices that took place at the level of individual regiments.

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