Author: Theodose Burette
Title: Histoire de France, Depuis L&Apos;Etablissement Des Francs Dans la Gaule Jusqu&Apos;En 1830. In Two Volumes
Description: Paris, Librairie de E. Ducrocq, 1840. Leather. A nicely illustrated set of this work on French history, in a decorative full leather binding. 'Since the establishment of the Franks in Gaul until 1830&apos. 'Enriched with 500 drawings by Jules David&apos. Featuring tissue-guarded frontispieces. With a bookbinder's label for Hunt & Sons, 75 High Street, Birmingham to the front pastdowns. Theodose Burette was formerly Professor of History at the Academy of Paris. Jules David was a painter, book illustrator and lithographer, and was best known for his fashion plates. About 2,600 of these were published in the Paris magazine Moniteur de la Mode and then subsequently used in magazines in France, Germany, Britain, Spain and America. David was the first to introduce the use of contemporary backgrounds into these plates, turning them from simple fashion displays into conversation pieces. In full leather bindings. Externally, rubbed. Internally, generally firmly bound although slightly strained in places. Intermittent foxing. Good . Ill.: Jules David. Good .

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