XVIII Siècle, Institutions, Usages Et Costumes. France, 1700–1789. Ouvrage Illustré De 21 Chromolithographies Et De 350 Gravures Sur Bois, D’Après Watteau, Vanloo, Rigaud, Boucher, Greuze, Lancret, J. Vernet, Chardin, Jeaurat, Bouchardon, Saint-Aubin, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, Cochin, Wille, Debucourt, Etc. Quatrième Édition. Translated: Eighteenth Century, Institutions, Usages And Costumes. France, 1700–1789. Illustrated Work With 21 Chromolithographs And 350 Wood Engravings, After Watteau, Vanloo, Rigaud, Boucher, Greuze, Lancret, J. Vernet, Chardin, Jeaurat, Bouchardon, Saint-Aubin, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, Cochin, Wille, Debucourt, Etc. Fourth Edition.

XVIII Siècle, Institutions, Usages Et Costumes. France, 1700–1789. Ouvrage Illustré De 21 Chromolithographies Et De 350 Gravures Sur Bois, D’Après Watteau, Vanloo, Rigaud, Boucher, Greuze, Lancret, J. Vernet, Chardin, Jeaurat, Bouchardon, Saint-Aubin, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, Cochin, Wille, Debucourt, Etc. Quatrième Édition. Translated: Eighteenth Century, Institutions, Usages And Costumes. France, 1700–1789. Illustrated Work With 21 Chromolithographs And 350 Wood Engravings, After Watteau, Vanloo, Rigaud, Boucher, Greuze, Lancret, J. Vernet, Chardin, Jeaurat, Bouchardon, Saint-Aubin, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, Cochin, Wille, Debucourt, Etc. Fourth Edition.

Author: Lacroix, Paul 4to.(7.25" x 10.75")1885. Lacroix, Paul. Paris. Firmin-Didot and Co. Quarter maroon pebbled leather with generous corners, double gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author to gilt rule framed second compartment, gilt title to gilt rule framed third compartment, triple gilt rule with fancy corners framing all other compartments with a large centered gilt device to each. Minor edgewer, corners lightly rubbed, head of spine chipped with loss, with small closed tears. Spine lightly sun-faded (see pic). Small chips to leather on covers. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 53 full page plates, 21 in color, many in-text illustrations.

From Wiki: Paul Lacroix ( 27 February 1806 – 16 October 1884) was a French author and journalist. He is known best by his pseudonym P.L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob, suggested by his great interest in libraries and books generally. He was a prolific and varied writer, composing more than twenty historical romances and a variety of serious historical works, including histories of Napoleon III and of the Czar Nicholas I of Russia. He was the joint author with Ferdinand Séré of a five-volume work, Le moyen âge et la renaissance (1847), a profusely illustrated standard work on the manners, customs and dress of the Renaissance. He also wrote many monographs on phases of the history of culture, including Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period. Someone using the name Pierre Dufour published an exhaustive six-volume Histoire de la prostitution (1851–1854), which has always been attributed to Lacroix. His works concerning bibliography were also numerous, as was his periodical Revue universelle des arts [Universal Review of the Arts], which he initiated in 1855. In 1855 he was appointed librarian of the Arsenal Library, Paris.