Ostentatious & Cross-dressing.- [Gauthier (l'Abbé François-Louis)] Traité contre l'amour des parures, et le luxe des habits, second expanded edition, half-title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, joints starting, but holding firm, rubbed, a good copy, Augustin-Martin Lottin, 1780. *** A condemnation of ostentatious dressing and vanity, including a chapter on whether women should be allowed to dress as men.