Excerpt from Precepts and Practice, Vol. 3 of 3 M Eugene Guinot has just shown them up in a very agreeable manner. It is very strange, says he, that Fashion has not yet found a his torian, in a country in which she so pre-emi uently flourishes, and where literature is so active and general. A History of Fashion would be at once curious and entertaining, and' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.