Item #140947274 [Handmade juvenile library with early color stipple engravings].
[Handmade juvenile library with early color stipple engravings]
[Handmade juvenile library with early color stipple engravings]
[Handmade juvenile library with early color stipple engravings]
[Handmade juvenile library with early color stipple engravings]
[Handmade juvenile library with early color stipple engravings]
[Handmade juvenile library with early color stipple engravings]

[Handmade juvenile library with early color stipple engravings]

[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 volume of animals bears a manuscript title page ("Animaux"). In the volume of professions, each illustration is labeled by hand, and the trades represented include soldiers, peddlers, knitters, farmers, and a lackey, among many others both serious and comedic. The volume of landscapes features identifiable landmarks, such as the Hagia Sophia and Matterhorn. Some illustrations rubbed, expert repairs to some of the bindings, else near fine. A charming set. Item #140947274

Price: $1,750

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