L'Hermite de Londres, ou Observations sur les Moeurs et Usages des Anglais au commencement du XIXe Siècle, faisant suite à la Collection des Moeurs Françaises.
by LONDON. Étienne de Jouy, Victor Joseph
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Chez Pillet Ainé, Paris., 1820-21. First edition. Small octavo. Three volumes. pp [iv], 354; [iv], 344; [iv], 344. Wood-engraved frontispieces, vignettes, folding plate comprising a map and London scenes. Period binding of full tree calf, red leather title-labels, green volume-labels. Marbled endpapers. First a soldier, then a dramatist and librettist best known for his libretto of Rossini's Guillaume Tell, Étienne also write journalism. One of the spines is lightly water-stained. Corners a little rubbed. Very good set.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LONDON007927
- Title
- L'Hermite de Londres, ou Observations sur les Moeurs et Usages des Anglais au commencement du XIXe Siècle, faisant suite à la Collection des Moeurs Françaises.
- Author
- LONDON. Étienne de Jouy, Victor Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez Pillet Ainé, Paris.
- Date Published
- 1820-21
- Keywords
- london french
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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