[Rarebooks] fa: HISTORIA DEL LUXO 1788 - On Spanish Sumptuary Laws

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with several others of a similar ilk, auctions  
ending Oct. 19...

Juan Sempere y Guarinos: Historia del Luxo, y de las Leyes Suntuarias  
de España. Por Don Juan Sempere y Guarinos, Abogada, Socio de Merito  
de la Real Sociedad Economica de Madrid, Secretario de la Casa y  
Estados del Excelentisimo Senor Marques de Villena. Madrid: Imprenta  
Real, 1788. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one. Hardcover 12mo  
(17 x 11cm) in full period tree calf, gilt-tooled spine and morocco  
spine label; marbled endpapers; 24 + 200 pp.; [2] + 219 pp. Goldsmiths  
12676; Colmeiro 360.

A very nice copy indeed of this classic history of extravagance and  
the state's efforts to control it through sumptuary laws, from Roman  
times to the eighteenth century. With many examples of lavish spending  
and elaborate costumes cited, it is consulted now as a work of social  
as well as economic history...

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Gracias,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.