Item #020450 FRENCH HUMORISTS. From the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century. Extra-Illustrated. Walter Besant.
FRENCH HUMORISTS. From the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century. Extra-Illustrated.
FRENCH HUMORISTS. From the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century. Extra-Illustrated.
FRENCH HUMORISTS. From the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century. Extra-Illustrated.
FRENCH HUMORISTS. From the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century. Extra-Illustrated.

FRENCH HUMORISTS. From the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century. Extra-Illustrated.

Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Very good condition. Item #020450

455 pages of text including an index. Half maroon leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards; front hinge repaired with Japanese tissue and colored to match. The binding is signed (stamped) by a binder from NY, but it cannot be read; it could be Butler Bros. Contains twenty-one inserted engravings from other publications, all relating to French humorists. Ex-libris Allan McNab (likely the artist 1901-1982) with his bookplate on both front and rear pastedown endpapers. Offsetting and foxing, mainly to the plateguards, but also minimally to the plates.

Price: $475.00

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