The Arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.English Edition, Revised and Re-Arranged by W. Armstrong, B.A.

LACROIX, Paul.

Published by LondonJ. S. Virtue & Co. ., 1886

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Small folio (26.5 x 17.5 cm). pp.xvi+464. Contemporary prize binding of full burgundy morocco for Owen's Grammar School, their crest gilt to upper cover, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 12 chromolithographic plates and upwards of 400 engravings on wood. Old prize label to front pastedown; additional armorial bookplate of Dr. Colin R. Lattimore to flyleaf. Some light spotting to endpapers, generally an excellent copy in a handsome binding. Revised English edition, with an additional chapter on music, illustrated with beautiful chromolithographic plates, many heightened in gold. Paul Lacroix, 1806 1884, was a French author and journalist. Lacroix was an extremely prolific and varied writer. Over twenty historical romances alone came from his pen, and he also wrote a variety of serious historical works, including a history of Napoleon III, and the life and times of the Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. He is best known under his pseudonym of P.L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob, suggested by the constant interest he took in public libraries and books generally. Lacroix was the author of Le moyen âge et la renaissance, a standard work on the manners, customs and dress of those times, the chief merit of which lies in the great number of illustrations it contains. He also wrote many monographs on phases of the history of culture, including Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period. His works on bibliography were also extremely numerous. In 1885 he was appointed librarian of the Arsenal Library, Paris.

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• Title: The Arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.English Edition, Revised and Re-Arranged by W. Armstrong, B.A.
• Publisher: LondonJ. S. Virtue & Co. .
• Publication Date: 1886
• Binding: Hardcover
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