Georgian

1714–1837

Everything here is older than photography, which is a strange thing to hold in your hand. We run the era to 1837 so William IV stays with the Georges.

Most of what survives from these years is small. Away from the silver trades, makers mostly went unrecorded, so a Georgian date is usually a range, and Attributed turns up on these cards more often than we would like.

Everything Early Edwardian Georgian Interwar & Deco Vintage - Late 20th Century Mid-Century Victorian Wartime

Georgian

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, Tome V, Toulouse 1788, with the plates

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Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, Tome V, Toulouse 1788, with the plates

Toulouse, France, 1788

Gil Blas was the most read French novel of the eighteenth century, a picaresque about a Spanish valet who rises through every kind of...

Les Exiles, Tome VIII of the Works of Madame de Villedieu, Paris 1741

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Les Exiles, Tome VIII of the Works of Madame de Villedieu, Paris 1741

Paris, France, 1741

Marie-Catherine Desjardins, who published as Madame de Villedieu, wrote novels, plays and verse in Paris in the 1660s and 1670s and put her own...