Boeknummer: 75202
P.-C. Lehuby, Libraire-Éditeur, Paris, 1851
Large 8vo (27x17 cm). Contemporary black cloth with decoration in romantic style: with gilt and polychrome ornements on covers and spine (tears in first hinge, but still holding strong, sl. rubbings to spine and corners); edges gilt; yellow endpapers (owner's stamp on first endpaper). 778 pp.: (iv), viii (introduction), 764, (i:'un mot sur la lithographie'), (i:blank) pp. With nicely decorated initials for each chapter. With 18, incl. frontisp.) yellow-tinted lithographs by Lemercier after Léonce Rabillon. - The lithographs with bown spots in margins, not affecting the image; text with a few very light spots. - On the whole an acceptable copy.
