Directoire, Consulat et Empire. : Mœurs et usages, lettres, sciences et arts. France. 1795-1815. Ouvrage illustré … / Paul Lacroix.
Paul L. Jacob (1806-1884)
Category
Books
Date
1884
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101716
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], vi, [2], 564 p., [35] leaves of plates (1 double) : ill. (some col.) ; 4to. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "fine copy. £2-10-0". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Lacroix / Directoire, Consulat et Empire'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper: 'Bayntun, Binder, Bath, Eng.'.
Makers and roles
Paul L. Jacob (1806-1884), author