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XVII SIÈCLE INSTITUTIONS USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE 1590-1700, OUVRAGE ILLUSTRÉ DE 16 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIES ET DE 300 GRAVURES SUR BOIS (DONT 20 TIRÉES HORS TEXTE) D'APRÈS LES MONUMENTS DE L'ART DE L'EPOQUE

XVII SIÈCLE INSTITUTIONS USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE 1590-1700, OUVRAGE ILLUSTRÉ DE 16 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIES ET DE 300 GRAVURES SUR BOIS (DONT 20 TIRÉES HORS TEXTE) D'APRÈS LES MONUMENTS DE L'ART DE L'EPOQUE

XVII SIÈCLE INSTITUTIONS USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE 1590-1700, OUVRAGE
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XVII SIÈCLE INSTITUTIONS USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE 1590-1700, OUVRAGE ILLUSTRÉ DE 16 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIES ET DE 300 GRAVURES SUR BOIS (DONT 20 TIRÉES HORS TEXTE) D'APRÈS LES MONUMENTS DE L'ART DE L'EPOQUE

by Lacroix, Paul

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Paris, France: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Et Cie, Imprimeurs de L'Institut, Rue Jacob, 56, 1880. Quarto, 11 1/2" x 8." pp. viii, 580. Full red Morocco double ruled in gilt with beautiful, elaborate gilt decorations. Corners bumped with moderate rubbing to joints. Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine. Gilt decorations and lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Front board starting on inner hinge. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Pages lightly tanned, occasional spotting on top margin. Title-page lettered in black and red. Lavishly illustrated with 36 plates total (16 of which are vibrantly colored chromolithographs), and 291 black and white in-text illustrations. Decorative headpieces, tailpieces, and historiated initials throughout. Pencil annotations pp. 337 and 391. Very beautiful book. Profusely illustrated book that surveys the institutions, customs, and fashions of seventeenth-century France from 1590 until 1700. By the French author and journalist Paul Lacroix. Includes chapters on the French Wars of Religion, the reign of Marie de Medici, Henry IV, and Louis XIIIi, the Fronde, charitable institutions and convents, the bourgeois, ceremonies and processions, and the theatre.

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Title
XVII SIÈCLE INSTITUTIONS USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE 1590-1700, OUVRAGE ILLUSTRÉ DE 16 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIES ET DE 300 GRAVURES SUR BOIS (DONT 20 TIRÉES HORS TEXTE) D'APRÈS LES MONUMENTS DE L'ART DE L'EPOQUE
Author
Lacroix, Paul
Book Condition
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Publisher
Librairie de Firmin-Didot Et Cie, Imprimeurs de L'Institut, Rue Jacob, 56
Place of Publication
Paris, France
Date Published
1880
Keywords
French history, seventeenth-century France, historical fashion, Costumes, Dress

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