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LACROIX, Paul: The Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages.
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212
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LACROIX, Paul: The Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages.
See original version (French)
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€16 - €18
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Description
LACROIX, Paul: The Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages. [3391]
Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1887. Large 8vo, brown half-shagreen, ribbed spine, red head. 3 unnumbered folios, 301 pages, 1 title folio. An illustrated study based on the works of Paul Lacroix, featuring 181 black-and-white engravings in the text and a chromolithograph as a frontispiece.
This volume presents the various arts and crafts practised in the Middle Ages: furniture, tapestries, ceramics, clockmaking, goldsmithing, etc. The final 35 pages are devoted to the trade guilds (their origins, statutes, ethos, and the journeymen’s system...).
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ID: 88458081
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