The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics

by Rudolph Ackermann, publisher

$32,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Later red half morocco, gilt edges. Provenance: Gother Mann 1747-1830 , army officer and military engineer First edition of Ackermann’s influential, authoritative publication on taste and fashion: an extraordinarily ambitious project providing a contemporary pictorial record of social life in early nineteenth-century Europe, and one of Britain’s earliest publications to use lithography Issued in parts, each volume is devoted to series that

• Binding: Leather

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