[Rarebooks] fa: GARSAULT: ART DU CORDONNIER (SHOEMAKING) 1767 + DIDEROT: ENCYCLOPEDIE on COSTUME

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, September 17. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


A bound collection of 18th-century French articles on dress, costume and the clothing trade, each illustrated with engraved plates:

[François Alexandre Pierre] de Garsault: Art du Cordonnier [Art of the Shoemaker], 1767. vi, 51, [1] pp., with 5 plates. This was vol. V of Description des arts et métiers.

Bound with six articles from Diderot's Encyclopédie: BOURSIER (purse maker), 2 pp. of text, with 3 plates of caps, purses, trousers, etc. BOUTONNIER (button maker), 2 pp., 6 plates. BRODEUR (embroiderer), 2 pp., 2 plates. FLEURISTE ARTIFICIEL (maker of artificial flowers), 2 pp., 8 plates (one double-page). FAISEUR DE MÉTIER A BAS, ET FAISEUR DE BAS AU MÉTIER (sock weaving machines, hosiery), 4 pp, 11 plates (8 folding). GANTIER (glove maker), 1 p., 5 plates.

Loosely laid in is correspondence between John L. Nevinson, collector and historian of dress and embroidery (Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate; The Bayeux Tapestry), and D. A. Saguto regarding the latter's forthcoming translation of Garsault's work (M de Garsault's Art of the Shoemaker: An Annotated Translation, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2009).

Tall folio (45.5 cm; 17 7/8 in) in modern polished buckram; very occasional marginal damp-staining and light foxing, some toning to the edges and the text leaves of the last article, but overall very clean and crisp. All the articles are complete as to the plates; forty plates total. Front paste-down with the bookplate of John L. Nevinson.