first edition Pictorial Boards
1853 · Tours
by H. de Chavannes de la Giraudiere | Victor Adam (Illustrator)
Tours: Ad Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs - libraires, 1853. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good binding. A juvenile work about fishermen, illustrated by Victor Adam, a 19c Parisian painter and lithographer. With seven unnumbered, hand colored, lithographic plates, of the original eight. A few extruding signatures; surface loss to the front endpaper and recto of the frontispiece, likely removing a previous owner's name. Joints cracked but holding well, with surface loss to the edges of the boards, rear board, and the spine. Pictorial paper boards. XII, 180 pp. Good binding.
(Inventory #: 290112)