{"title":"Georgian","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverything 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"les-exiles-tome-viii-of-the-works-of-madame-de-villedieu-1741","title":"Les Exiles, Tome VIII of the Works of Madame de Villedieu, Paris 1741","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume eight of the 1741 collected works of Madame de Villedieu, holding her novel Les Exiles complete in one volume. Marie-Catherine Desjardins wrote and published under her own name in the 1660s and 1670s, when almost no Frenchwoman did, and was still in print sixty years after she died.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLes Exiles opens with the poet Ovid, banished from the court of Augustus, walking a foreign shore, and goes on from there in the manner of the seventeenth-century French novel: exiles, confidences, stories inside stories. The 1741 Oeuvres were a syndicate printing by the Compagnie des Libraires in Paris, and this volume is one of a set. Read alone it is a whole book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOeuvres de Madame de Ville-Dieu, Tome VIII, contenant Les Exiles. A Paris, par la Compagnie des Libraires, M.DCC.XLI, avec privilege du Roy. Woodcut device on the title, headpiece and ornamental initial at the opening of the novel. Duodecimo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe copy\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with rosette tools and lettered direct, OEUVRES DE VILDIEU and TOM VIII. Headcap chipped with small loss, joints and edges rubbed, boards holding well. Foxing spots to the title and first leaves, text otherwise clean. No ownership marks found. Condition graded Sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, with its annotation card: accession number, era, date, materials, condition, confidence level and wall text. 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Duodecimo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne oddity, described on the card: the Table des Chapitres and Approbation bound at the back belong to Tome VI of the set, a binder's or printer's swap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe copy\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary calf spattered in green and red, spine gilt in compartments with the volume number 5 in a roundel and lettered HISTOIR DE GILBLA. Headcap chipped, corners bumped, joints rubbed but holding. Text clean with light toning. Condition graded Sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, with its annotation card: accession number, era, date, materials, condition, confidence level and wall text. 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