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Single sheet (228 × 175 mm), 29 lines, including heading and imprint, the main text within typographical border. Quite fragile, signs of 4 old folds, small hole along one, minor loss but not touching any letters.
A lovely survival of a Parisian haberdasher’s advertisement. From her shop opposite the fan-maker’s in the courtyard of the Abbey of Saint Germain, Madame Roux sold all manner of taffeta and laces, and was a specialist in ribbons. She advertises ribbons of numerous fabrics for collars, the hair, purse strings and hats. This chance survival takes us to the colourful heart of the pre-Revolutionary Paris.
We have found no other examples of this handbill in the CCFr but Valleyre jeune specialised in this type of jobbing printing between 1773 and 1783.
£300.00
