Buy this book on-line DUMAS, ALEXANDRE : LA BOUILLIE DE LA COMTESSE BERTHEJ. Hetzel, Paris, N.d. [ca. 1845]
8vo., publisher's diagonally grained blue cloth with an elaborate outer frame stamped in black, inside of which is another elaborate gilt-stamped oval frame (which incorporates part of the black border), inside of which is an oval-shaped picture of soup being served from a large copper pot. This scene has been PRINTED IN COLOR CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY and then pasted in place. The spine is heavily decorated in gilt and black; the rear cover is framed in a black-stamped border. All edges are gilt in a copper-rainbow foil, plain gray endpapers. The binding is signed in gilt (as part of the plaque) by the designer, A. Souze, the binder, LeNègre, and the publisher. A most original (Experimental?) binding combining a variety of techniques to achieve its effects. We have never run across such a combination before.This is one of the many popular children's stories by Dumas père, whose complete works fill 103 volumes in the Calmann-Lévy edition. It is handsomely decorated with numerous wood-engravings by Albert-d'Arnoux Bertall (1820-1882) who made humorous desigsn for Parisian periodicals by the thousands and drew many illustrations for popular editions of the day, including Brillat-Savarin's Physiologie du goût (1848). Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of DUMAS, ALEXANDRE : LA BOUILLIE DE LA COMTESSE BERTHE. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, used books, out-of-print books, fine bindings and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |