Apologie des dames, les jolies Françaises
Subtitle: leurs coëffures et habillemens : etrennes a la beauté avec des couplets galans accompagnés de figures, suivie de tablettes economiques perte et gain
Contributors: Jubert, Jean-Pierre, binder, bookseller
Publisher: Chez le Sr. Desnos, ingénieur-géographe et libraire de Sa Majesté danoise, rue St. Jacques, au Globe
Published: 1782
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Fashion; Early works to 1800; History; Hairstyles; Women's clothing
Notes: Folded leaf of plates at beginning of volume contains engraved calendar, with imprint "[?] Jubert, doreur, successeur de Mr. Boismare, Rüe St. Jacques vis-à-vis cèlle des Mathurins"; date of publication presumed from calendar.

After frontispiece and title page, contains 12 leaves of illustrations of French women, facing 12 leaves of verse; followed by an account book with imprint "Chez Jubert, doreur, rue S. Jacques". All pages engraved, except for account book.

Signatures: [1-13²] A¹².

Rare Book copy: All illustrations are hand-colored.

Rare Book copy: Annotation on calendar leaf: "This book once belonged to Madame de Maintenon", 1635-1719.

Gift; George A. Plimpton

Rare Book copy: Bound in yellow silk (now mostly faded), embroidered with sequins; pink silk pastedowns; text edges gilt.