The History of French Masculine Custom: Gaul. Middle Ages. Renaissance. Louis XIII. Louis XIV. Revolution. First Empire. Restoration. Second Empire.
New York: Foreign Publications, n.d. [ca. 1927]. Hardcover. 99 of 100 magnificently illustrated full-page, captioned hand-colored plates.
10 vol. in 1:
1) Gallo-Roman togas and tunics.
2) Monastic and Byzantine attire in the middle ages.
3) Capes and collars, renaissance.
4) Doublets and jerkins, Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
5) Refined taste of the French garments, Louis XV.
6) Masculine ideal, perukes and dress-coats, Louis XVI.
7) Supreme good manners of the revolutionary "sans-culottes".
8) Napoleonic imperial official smartness.
9) Romantic dandies and beaux of the restoration period.
10) Appearance of the second empire fops.
Folio. Portfolio. Original paper covered boards with hand colored paste-on to cover. Each volume has illustrated title page and one image that is not counted in as numbered plate. Complete ten parts (called volumes) in portfolio, each part, with cover-title illustrated in colors, containing 8 pages of text and 10 plates. Plate 10 missing from vol. 9.
Magnificently illustrated with 99/100 full-page hand colored plates, depicting the French custom in its various stages.
Scuffing, rubbing, staining to boards. Spine disintegrating but still attached. Corners worn. One plate missing (see above). Minor tears and creasing to page edges and some larger tears to very few pages, not affecting text or plates. (Exception: Title page of whole book, where the tear affects the plate). Minor browning to pages. In English. Good- condition. fair. Item #16689
Price: $150.00