John Grand-Carteret - XIXe Siècle (En France) : Classes - Mœurs - Usages - Costumes - Inventions - 1892

Charming illustrated edition of this extensive documentary and iconographic fresco dedicated to 19th-century French society.

The author, collector, and historian of popular imagery, gathers a multitude of testimonies, engravings, caricatures, and stories that illustrate social transformations, daily practices, clothing evolutions, and technical innovations of the time.

Grand-Carteret employs a quasi-ethnographic approach, describing social classes, bourgeois and popular customs, domestic and festive practices, costumes that mark identities, as well as inventions that transform modern life (railways, photography, illustrated press).

John Grand-Carteret - 19th Century (In France): Classes - Customs - Usages - Costumes - Inventions - 1892 - Firmin-Didot & Cie
600 Pages

Very good condition of the binding, book in its original full red illustrated cardboard cover, slight signs of wear, rubbed headbands and corners, gilded edges, smoothly decorated spine, gilded title and author's name, superb gilded engravings on the covers.

Good interior condition, foxing, title in red and black, work enriched with numerous illustrations both within and outside the text, including frontispiece and double-page illustrations, marbled endpapers in good condition.

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