[Rarebooks] FS: Take off that Wig, Sir!!! 1779 Wiggy Use & Abuse

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Histoire des Perruques, Ou l'on fait voir Leur origine, leur
usage, leur forme, l'abus & l'irregularite de celles des Ecclesiastiques”

By Jean-Baptiste Thiers.
Published in Avignon by Chez Louis Chambeau in 1779.

DISCUSSION: An interesting early history of wigs and their use and abuse;
the actual main purpose of the book, when it was first published in 1690,
was to criticize the abuse of wigs by clerics and other theologians (an
outspoken religious writer, Thiers penned over 30 other works on religious
subjects of his day). This study was popular enough to be translated into
Italian in 1702 and German in 1712. Another French edition was evidently
published in 1777.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 4.25"x7", xxii, [i], 441 pages; small woodcut of
three hats and several decorative woodcut head and tailpieces. Marbled
endpapers. Bound in full 19th century mottled polished calf with a red
spine label and elaborate gilt spine decorations; engraved bookplate of
Louis Batigne.

CONDITION NOTES: The covers have some rubbing, front hinge very tender;
contents fine except for some soil on the title page.

PRICE: $375. -

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