Petites Miseres de la Vie Humaine. Texte par old Nick. Nouvelle edition. Augmentee de nombreuses vignettes, tetes de pages, cul-de-lampe, etc.
Printed in France. Garnier Freres. N.D. Nouvelle edition. Leather over boards. Hardcover leather (red) over boards. 4to. [8]+iii+[2]+520 pp. Illustrated with 53 b/w fine engraved plates, including a portrait frontispiece of Grandville. No date -- earliest possible date for the nouvelle edition is 1848 but Garnier Freres produced several "nouvelle editions' without dating them. French language text. Sympathetically rebound. All edges gilt. Five compartment spine; compartment 2 contains a gilt title, the rest have gilt floral ornaments. Blind tooled borders on front and back boards. Cloth endpapers. Light foxing throughout the text block. Some bleed through on some of the plates. Binding is strong and square. Small cracks in the front and back hinges, and wear at the top and bottom of spine. Lightly bumped corners. Wrapped in protective mylar. Overall a bright and readable copy with plenty of strength left in its bindings. Very good. Item #67209
Price: $300.00