Author: Jouy,Jules music by Claude Blanc & Leopold Dauphin
Title: LA CHANSON DES JOUJOUX
Description: Paris, Au Menestrel & Ancienne Maison Quantin full page color plates [18] +color decorations showing toys,dolls & puppets to the titlepage + Punch puppet on Table of contents,all by Marie Adrien . 4to cloth spined pictorial boards,father christmas and child among the chimney pots and jack in the box & rabbit musician all on beige paper boards . Lower cover with doll on wheeled donkey and ball + top & whip [?diabolo?] [All edges worn/cloth of spine rubbed and spotted/lower cover missing parts of beige paper background] All edges red and all pages are unnumbered therefore it is not possible to tell if complete but there are well over 100pages and all the songs listed in the contents pages are present. The titlepage and Contents page have colored pictures and text printed in red and blue. All music pages are printed in a single color differing for each piece of music with some colors repeated. These pages also have illustrations in same color as the music notation and text.The front endpapers have a few vertical-line scribbles + a diagonal crease and two short edge tears without loss. The paper thoughtout the book is uniformly tanned and there are a few edge chips/tears.

Keywords: Songs music color plates & illustrations


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