Modes et usages au temps de Marie-Antoinette, 1885.

Par Gustave Reiset. Livre-Journal de Madame Eloffe. Ouvrage illustré de près de 200 gravures.
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  • Condition : good condition, slightly rubbed and stained, corners slightly bumped, top edge of spine of volume 2 small loss, some minor foxing or spotting in margins and partly slightly browned in margins, some minor marginal tears, folded plate with 7 cm marginal tear, 2 leaves slightly detached (small marginal tears), generally fresh and clean.
  • Illustrations : nearly 200 engravings, including 110 plates out of text ( 68 coloured, 6 in photoglyphics mounted on plates).
  • Volumes : 2 volumes.
  • Binding : half morocco, spine decorated with floral and fleur-de-lys cases, boards decorated with a large lace and the arms of Marie Antoinette, gilt edges. 
  • Format : small in-4.
  • Pages: 3 ff., 483, (1 blank) pp., 1 p. Errata; 2 ff, 540, (1 blank) pp. 2 ff.
  • Publisher: Paris, Firmin-Didot.
  • Date: 1885.
  • Reference: Tourneux, IV, 21018; Lipperheide Fb 63.

    First edition. First-rate testimony to life at court at the end of the Ancien Régime and up to the death of the queen (1787 - 1793).

    Adélaïde Henriette Damoville, known as Madame Eloffe (1759-1805), born into a somewhat impoverished background, entered the service of Madame Pompey and trained as a fashion dealer. She married M. Eloffe and they ended up taking over Madame Pompey's clientele. They supplied the court of Versailles at the end of the 18th century, the royal family of the time and even Marie Antoinette. Her two account books give information on what was sold in the shop. 
    The appendix contains a state of the court in 1787, a summary of the livre-journal, a dictionary of fashion terms and the score of a harpsichord piece by Dussek on the death of Marie Antoinette.

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Condition Used - Good
Language France
Illustrated Yes
Publicaton Date Jan 1, 1885
Year 1885
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Eloffe Madame (Adélaïde Henriette Damoville)
Editor Firmin-Didot
First edition Yes
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Half leather
Size 29 x 22 cm
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