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XVIII SIÃCLE: INSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE 1700-1789. OUVRAGE ILLUSTRÃ DE 21 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIES ET DE 350 GRAVURES SUR BOIS D'APRÃS WATTEAU, VANLOO, RIGAUD, BOUCHER, LANCRET, J. VERNET, CHARDIN, JEAURAT, BOUCHARDON, SAINT-AUBIN, EISEN, GRAVELOT, MOREAU, COCHIN, WILLE, DEBUCOURT, ETC.
by Lacroix, Paul
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Paris, France: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie Imprimeurs de L'Institut, Rue Jacob, 56, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 11 1/2" x 8." pp. viii, 520. Full red Morocco double ruled in gilt with beautiful, elaborate gilt decorations. Corners bumped with mild rubbing to joints and top and bottom of spine. Gilt decorations and lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Pages lightly tanned and very clean, excepting occasional smudge. Title-page lettered in black and red. Lavishly illustrated with 55 plates total (21 of which are vibrantly colored chromolithograph), and 322 black and white in-text illustrations. Decorative headpieces, tailpieces, and historiated initials throughout. Very beautiful book. Profusely illustrated book that surveys the institutions, customs, and fashions of eighteenth-century France from 1700 until the French Revolution. By the French author and journalist Paul Lacroix. Includes chapters on the king and court, nobility, bourgeoise, common people, the army, parlement, clergy, etc.
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- Aardvark Rare Books
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- 86067
- Title
- XVIII SIÃCLE: INSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE 1700-1789. OUVRAGE ILLUSTRÃ DE 21 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIES ET DE 350 GRAVURES SUR BOIS D'APRÃS WATTEAU, VANLOO, RIGAUD, BOUCHER, LANCRET, J. VERNET, CHARDIN, JEAURAT, BOUCHARDON, SAINT-AUBIN, EISEN, GRAVELOT, MOREAU, COCHIN, WILLE, DEBUCOURT, ETC.
- Author
- Lacroix, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie Imprimeurs de L'Institut, Rue Jacob, 56
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- French fashion, eighteenth-century France, Ancien Regime, Fashion and manners,
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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