Author: STRUTT, JOSEPH & BOULARD, ANTOINE MARIE HENRI (translator):
Title: Angleterre ancienne, ou tableau des mÏurs, usages, armes, habillemens, &c. des anciens habitans de l'Angleterre; c'est-à-dire, des anciens Bretons, des Anglo-Saxons, des Danois & des Normands. Two volumes. Paris, chez Maradan, 1789.
Description: . Text volume in 4to and plate volume in folio. Pp. viii, 324; 23 + 68 engraved plates. Contemporary half green morocco on marbled covered boards, flat spines decorated in gilt and with title labels, lightly rubbed. Bookplate (Ericsberg). Small marginal loss to labels. Uncut copy. A beautiful copy of the first French edition of Strutt's work on the costumes, armour and social life of medieval inhabitants of the British Isles, first published 1774-76. Joseph Strutt (1749-76) was an author, artist, antiquary, and engraver. Brunet v, p. 585 (incorrectly calling for 77 plates).

Keywords: Europe, britain, great britain, british, england, medieval, costumes, illustrations,


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