87 - CAPPLIEZ, Charles. History of the Trades of Valenciennes and Their Patron Saints.

CAPPLIEZ, Charles. History of the Trades of Valenciennes and Their Patron Saints. Valenciennes, G. Giard, 1893. In-4, brown half-maroquin, spine with cold-stamped raised bands, author’s name and title in gold lettering, endpapers and inner covers of combed paper, gilt head, original illustrated covers preserved (contemporary binding) xi, 380 pp. and 2 ff. of tables, 18 black-and-white or two-tone plates, including 1 frontispiece, numerous headpieces and tailpieces. Binding slightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, slight black marks in the margins of a few pages. First edition of this definitive monograph on the guilds of Valenciennes, illustrated with 18 plates by various local artists. In it, Abbé Cappliez traces the origins, statutes, guild organization, brotherhoods, and religious traditions of the artisans and workers of Valenciennes, from the Middle Ages through the French Revolution. A fine copy in a contemporary binding with its original covers intact.