Fashion

New edition after the first published in 1766, at the same address.
Half speckled cloth binding, mid-19th century. Smooth spine with fillets. Red calf title-label. The work is a libertine entertainment on elegance and fashion in novel form; it is the story of an elegant man and his tribulations in society.

Third edition.
Bradel binding in full mouse-grey cloth, smooth spine, navy shagreen title-label, minor angular soiling to head of boards without significance, covers and spine preserved.
Work illustrated with 83 in-text figures.
Paper yellowed, otherwise handsome copy.

Edition printed in 1000 numbered copies.
Half mint green shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with richly ornamented gilt compartments, traces of rubbing to spine and joints, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards with some epidermures, corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers preserved, top edge gilt.
Work illustrated with plates printed separately in black and in colors.
Occasional light foxing.

First edition.
How to remove grease stains from fabrics, urine stains, process for removing wax, process for lustering fabrics, how to treat silk fabrics, how to recolor Turkish carpets, the different processes for different colors...
Our copy is presented in its original plain wrappers, covers soiled, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition.
Primitive clothing, the first fabric manufacture, purple, the Athenians, the handkerchief, the Romans, the Gauls, Philippe Auguste and furs, the doublet, origin of breeches, the necktie, the revolution, how dandies dress...
Handsome and rare copy, with blank covers, despite some light foxing.