[Rarebooks] fs: Tinker, Tailor, Surgeon... Pie-maker? (1689 French Trade Regulations)

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[Besancon] ORDONNANCES REGLEMENS ET STATUTS DES ARTS ET METIERS DE LA CITE
ROYALE DE BESANCON.

Besancon; Louis Rigoine: 1689.

A good source of information on trade regulations and practices in 17th
century France. This compilation of rules, regulations and laws concerning
the crafts and trades was published in the important eastern city of
Besancon in 1689, just 11 years after it had formally been ceded to France
as part of the peace of Nijmwegen.

The first section includes general information and regulations, followed
by sections for masons, carpenters, roofers, launderers, metalsmiths,
farriers, pavers, gold & silversmiths, pewterers, cabinetmakers,
hatmakers, tailors, shoemakers, weavers, tanners, saddlers,
harness-makers, apothecaries, surgeons, bakers & pastry makers, and
butchers.

Each section runs five or six pages and touches on the details of
apprenticeships, trade regulations, succession at the death of the master,
and other nuts and bolts aspects of the trades and professions in a 17th
century French city. A valuable source of information.

Subsequent editions were published in 1698 and 1784. None are common; OCLC
locates only 4 copies of this edition.

Hardcover.  7"x10", 146 pages, [2] leaves, woodcut device on the title
page, woodcut head and tailpieces and initial letters; bound in full
contemporaneous calf with giltwork on the spine; covers rubbed, some light
internal browning. [22593] $1800.00

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