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XIXe [i.e. Dix-neuvième] siècle (en France); classes - moeurs - usages - costumes - inventions. Ouvrage illustré d'un front. chromotypographique, de 16 planches coloriées aux patrons, de 36 entetes et lettres ornées et de 487 gravures (dont 24 tirées hors texte) d'après les principaux artistes du siècle

Grand-Carteret, John, 1850-1927 · 1893 · Paris Firmin-Didot · 566 pictures

A survey of nineteenth-century French social life, manners, dress and invention, compiled by John Grand-Carteret and published by Firmin-Didot in Paris in 1893 for general French readers. Its 487 wood engravings after period artists show crowds, ballrooms, salons, street ceremonies and shopfronts, with ornamental headpieces and initials, supplying costume reference and dense figure groups for collage.

Costume -- France · Art -- France · France -- Social life and customs

Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0