Rotch, Benjamin (attributed)

(Extra illustrated) Manners & Customs of The French. Facsimile of the scarce 1815 Ediiton. With Ten Whole-Page Amusing and Prettily Tinted Illustrations printed from the Original Copper Plates (Copper Plates now Destroyed)

London: Leadenhall Press, 1893. Leather_bound. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the publisher. Three quarter black leather lined in gilt and spine lettered and designed in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extra illustrated; ten tinted plates as called for, this volume contains and additional six titnted color plates , five of which represent empire period female costume; an engraving of Ludwig XVIII inserted at the frontispiece (foxing); engraved portraits of Voltaire and Rousseau; engraving of Versailles from Paris Avenue (foxing to plate and facing page). Binding worn about the edges and with a 1/2" chip at head of spine. Very Good. Item #E11148

Price: $125.00