Le Nouvel ami des enfans, ou le Berquin anglais ... Traduction libre de l'anglais ... Cinquième édition, considérablement augmentée

by Théodore-Pierre Bertin, Thomas Day

$250 · Offered by Musinsky Rare Books

Signed

4 vols. in two, 18mo. viii, 202; 204; 215, 1 ; 214, 2 pp. 24 engraved plates, including 12 stipple engravings in vol. 1, faintly signed Dien sc. Contemporary tree calf gilt scraped and worn . Inscription on front flyleaf of vol. 1: Souvenir de Thse de Butler à son frère Maurice Le 23 Aout 1838. An endearingly odd children’s book. This best-seller, Bertin’s first book for children,

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