[FRANCE]. LACROIX, Paul,

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,; Its Institutions, Customs and Costumes. France 1700-1789. Illustrated with 21 chromolithographs and 351 wood engravings after Wattau, Vanloo, Rigaud, Boucher, Lancret, J. Vernet, Chardin, Jeaurat, Bouchardon, Saint-Aubin, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, Cochin, Wille, Debucourt, Etc, Etc, Etc.

NY: Scribner Welford and Armstrong, 1876. First US Edn. Large 8vo, pp. 489. Bound in publisher's leather backed red cloth stamped in gilt. Rubbed along the hinges and spine, a very good tight copy. Item #18771

Leaving aside the general facts of history, Lacroix has "confined his labours to the consideration of manners, customs, public and prvate costume, arts, sciences, and literature ..."

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