Cravatiana : ou traité général des cravates considérées dans leur origine, leur influence politique, physique, et morale, leurs formes, leurs couleurs, et leurs espèces.

(Paris): Chez Ponthieu Libraire, 1823.  First edition.  Hardcover.  17cm by 10.5cm.  84 pages.  The first of the many guides and manuals that were published, during the final years of the Bourbon Restoration in France, in the 1820s that contended that the cravat was the most important element of men’s fashion or as Balzac declared the cravat “is to clothes what truffles are to dinner,”  These manuals aided the transformation of the extravagant fashions of the Directory incroyables into the understated elegance of the fashionables of the 1820s, a French variant influenced by English dandy on the continent.  The volume here provides details for fourteen methods for preparing the cravat.  A very good copy in full leather, gilt title and decoration to the spine, endpapers by A. Metz.