Handmade Juvenile Library With Early Color Stipple Engravings

$1,750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

France? : no publisher , ca. 1830? . Seven volumes. 1.5 x 1-13/16 . Unpaginated. Uniformly bound in green diced paper over boards. Each volume devotes its contents to a particular theme: flowers, animals, insects, the Latin alphabet, caricatured figures, professions, and landscapes. All illustrations are finely and minutely rendered, suggesting a skilled hand, early to the use of color in printed illustration arts. The

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