LACROIX Customs, Practices, and Costumes in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

  

Customs, practices, and attire in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A large volume in quarto, IV 603 pp. Binding in half red morocco, smooth spine richly adorned with special gold tools, boards of grained percaline of the same color very richly decorated with large gold motifs, decorated endpapers, gilt edges (publisher's binding).

(Light wear at the hinges, rare and pale foxing mostly confined to the margins). The work is illustrated with 15 chromolithographic plates executed by F. A very beautiful copy with brilliant gold. Rare in this condition of preservation.