Author: SONENSCHER, MICHAEL.
Title: The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France.
Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. 0520058275. 1st edition. "The history of the eighteenth-century French hatting trade is a history of beavers, hares, and mercury. It is also a history of a distinctive pattern of work. Sonenscher considers the relationship between the two in light of prevailing assumptions about the nature of the wage and the conventions of eighteenth-century civil jurisprudence." Pp.xiv/187, owner's details to front free endpaper. Blue boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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