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L’Art d’être grand père

1884255 x 340 mm

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
ONE OF THE FIRST 25 ON CHINA.

900 

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Description

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

ONE OF THE FIRST 25 COPIES ON CHINA, before 25 copies on Japan, follows an unnumbered print.

Famous collection of anecdotes written by Victor Hugo for his grandchildren, collected after the untimely death of his son Charles.

Illustrations by Jean-Paul Laurens, Giaccomelli, Frémiet, A. Marie, Bayard, Bac, Habert-Dys, Gosselin, Mouchot, Benett, Claire Guyot, Dascher, Vuillier, Chapuis, A. Brun, Lancon, Méaulle, Dubois, Vogel, Chovin, Riquet, Bacon, Zier, Scott, engraved by Méaulle.

Copy remained in sheet form in an illustrated editor's folder, treatment reserved for prints on China and Japan paper. Many of these luxury copies were bound, leaving no trace of the charming illustrations in the cream-coloured folder. The current edition was sold bound by the publisher in red percaline with the same illustrations.

Rare.

Paris,Public limited company for periodical publications,1884.In-4, Sheets,255 x 340 mm,320 pp.

Percaline editor folder illustrated with a lyre and playing children.
Two severed tie tapes.

Bio

Victor Hugo

(born on 26 February 1802 in Besançon and died on 22 May 1885 in Paris)

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