Leather bound
1885 · Versailles
by Gustave Desjardins
Versailles: L. Bernard, 1885. Leather bound. VG+, light wear to tips of coversextreeme top and bottom of front outer hinge, bookplate inside front cover at top for "Versailles-Hiver 1917" possibly a presentation plate with owner / recipient name written in ink.. 3/4 red leather with speckled boards and marbled endpapers. 5 raised bands, topedge gilt, tooling and devices in the spine compartments. xvi, (4), 469 (1 pp. Errrata). Color frontis, one other color plate (both Heliochrome), other illustrations with tissue guards. Text is in French. A lovely copy of this scarce title.
(Inventory #: 172086)