Title: Les Contes du gay scavoir. Ballades, Fabliaux et traditions du moyen age Author: Langle, Joseph Adolphe Ferdinand, editor Place: Paris Publisher: Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan Date: [1828] Description: [8], cxlvi, 48 pp. Illustrated and illuminated by Bonnington and Monnier, with hand-colored lithographs heightened in gilt, including illustrated title-page, 10 half-page illustrations on Chine applique, and 15 decorative initials. 8¼x5¼, 19th century full red morocco decoratively tooled in gilt, raised spine bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Beautifully and strikingly illustrated gathering of medieval ballads and fables, demonstrated the Romantic's fascination with the middle ages, printed in Gothic type, with the illustrations pastiches of medieval miniatures. With the armorial bookplate of J. Austin Stevens, Jr. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine scuffed; some foxing and darkening to contents, else very good or better. Item number: 167924
Title: Les Contes du gay scavoir. Ballades, Fabliaux et traditions du moyen age Author: Langle, Joseph Adolphe Ferdinand, editor Place: Paris Publisher: Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan Date: [1828] Description: [8], cxlvi, 48 pp. Illustrated and illuminated by Bonnington and Monnier, with hand-colored lithographs heightened in gilt, including illustrated title-page, 10 half-page illustrations on Chine applique, and 15 decorative initials. 8¼x5¼, 19th century full red morocco decoratively tooled in gilt, raised spine bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Beautifully and strikingly illustrated gathering of medieval ballads and fables, demonstrated the Romantic's fascination with the middle ages, printed in Gothic type, with the illustrations pastiches of medieval miniatures. With the armorial bookplate of J. Austin Stevens, Jr. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine scuffed; some foxing and darkening to contents, else very good or better. Item number: 167924
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