Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard

by E. D. Forgues, Arnould, Frémy, Taxile, Delord, Amédée

$180 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date circa 1870 . Surrealist Humour FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto 27 x 19cm , pp. 6 ; 551; 3 . With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and black cloth over boards. All edges gilt. Some browning and spotting around plates.

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