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Directoire, Consulat et Empire. Moeurs et Usages, Lettres, Sciences et Arts. GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Directory, Consulate and Empire. Manners and Usages, Literature, Sciences and Arts.
Lacroix, Paul · Paris
- Author
- Lacroix, Paul
- Date
- 1884
- 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 16 chromolithographs and 250 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. .
- Category
- History & Americana
- Record
- S.I.5276
Directoire, Consulat et Empire. Moeurs et Usages, Lettres, Sciences et Arts. GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Directory, Consulate and Empire. Manners and Usages, Literature, Sciences and Arts. Paul Lacroix. 1884. 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. First edition, magnificently illustrated with 16 chromo lithographs and 250 in-text engravings. Limited Edition 189/500. 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.
Condition
Good
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