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XVIII Siecle Institutions Usages et Costumes France 1700-1790 GOOGLE TRANSLATE: XVIII Century Dress and Costumes of Institutions France 1700-1789
Lacroix, Paul · Paris
- Author
- Lacroix, Paul
- Date
- 1875
- Place
- Paris
- Publisher
- Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie.
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 4to. 1/4 full brown calf with large tips, marbled covers and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine with 5 raised bands and gilt author & title in second compartment. Crown of spine chipped.
- Format
- First edition, magnificently illustrated with 21 chromolithographs and 350 in-text engravings. We owe it to Paul Jacob, who was a great bibliophile, a writer and scholar, and the curator of the Arsenal library. If the whole series has become a great classic in the field, it is because it happily combines the work of an editor, printer, binder, history, illustrators, documentation, and few books have finally achieved this amalgam that we owe to Firmin-Didot, at a time when the book had become very mediocre. Note the presence in the sciences of the STUDY of ALCHEMY and OCCUYLT SCIENCES, and a chapter on heraldry.
- Category
- History & Americana
- Record
- S.I.5278
XVIII Siecle Institutions Usages et Costumes France 1700-1790 GOOGLE TRANSLATE: XVIII Century Dress and Costumes of Institutions France 1700-1789. Paul Lacroix. 1875. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie. 4to. 1/4 full brown calf with large tips, marbled covers and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine with 5 raised bands and gilt author & title in second compartment. Crown of spine chipped. Limited Edition 574/3500. First edition, magnificently illustrated with 21 chromolithographs and 350 in-text engravings. We owe it to Paul Jacob, who was a great bibliophile, a writer and scholar, and the curator of the Arsenal library. If the whole series has become a great classic in the field, it is because it happily combines the work of an editor, printer, binder, history, illustrators, documentation, and few books have finally achieved this amalgam that we owe to Firmin-Didot, at a time when the book had become very mediocre. Note the presence in the sciences of the STUDY of ALCHEMY and OCCUYLT SCIENCES, and a chapter on heraldry.
Condition
Good
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