I. Vie militaire et religieuse au Moyen Age et a lépoque de la Renaissance. II: Moeurs, usages et costumes au Moyen Age et a l epoque de la Rennaissance. III. Les arts au Moyen Age et a l epoque de la Rennaissance. IV: The Eighteenth (18th; XVIIIth) Century: Its institutions,  customs and costumes. France 1700 - 1789. (4 volume set)

LACROIX, Paul

Paris: Firmin Didot., 1874

[European (French) Costume] 4 volume set. Quartos, 29 cm.  Bound in publisher's ornate, profusely gilt-tooled leather boards.  Bindings are generally good, with minor rubbing and shelf wear.  (Note: V.4 is the exception, and has cracks along the spine, and a shody binding.)  All edges gilt.  Internally the books are quite nice, with numerous plate and chromolithographs.  v.1: 577 pp. Illustrated with 14 chromolithographs and 410 wood engravings engraved by Huyot, v.2: iv, 603pp. illustrated with 15 chromolithographs and 440 wood engravings (4th ed.), v.3: 548pp. illustrated with 19 chromolithographs and 400 wood engravings; v. 4: xvi, 489 p. : illus. engravings, frontis., 31 plates. Note: Vol. 4 is the English translation of "XVIII me Siecle institutions, usages et costumes France 1700 - 1789."  

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