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- ALBUM DE CENT IMAGES D'EPINAL compose pour Garcons No. 2

France, Pellerin & Cie color illustrated throughout in early comic book format of pictures that tell a story with a short caption underneath . folio cloth spined pictorial boards with school boy and satchell carrying a book under his arm on the front cover + 3 boys reading from an images d'epinal book [covers very worn/corners bashed/spine cloth with holes & tears but covers still together] 55 leaves printed one side only starting with a fine parade of Victorian firemen using pumps, ladders and rescuing swooning ladies. This and the last leaf with Gymnastic displays + 4 pages given over to military persons in three or four groupings [Alpine soldiers,cavalry etc] are not stories. Almost all of the other pages are in 16 small pictures making up a story sequence in one page. Some are humorous,some historical,others moral etc. but each is complete in one page.The paper of these Image d'Epinal is rather tanned, a few have traces of pencilling on the blank backside and a few having small tears,usually without any loss,but some with corner creases and sm.corner losses, never affecting any images.Though title implies that there are 100 images this seems to be a Part I volume
GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 65.25 US$ 70 | JP¥ 11011] Book number J75701

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