Author: Leo Claretie:
Title: Les Jouets; histoire - fabrication.
Description: Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, nd [1893]. First edition (hardback). 8vo, half-title, title, iv, 324pp, table des matieres. 6 hand-coloured plates, 7 full-page text illustrations, 300 vignettes dans le texte. Original decorated red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, all edges gilt. Binding rubbed, marked and shaken, light browning of the contents. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition only. The title page states that the book has "13 planches hors texte, dont 6 en couleurs", but in practice the 7 black and white plates are full-page text illustrations, not plates.

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