Mr. Cryptogame

Rodolphe TÖPFFER & CHAM
Mr. Cryptogame [Mr Bachelor Butterfly]
Imprimerie Levé [Garnier] | Paris n. d. [c. 1870]| 28 x 19.5 cm | publisher's binding
New Garnier edition. 64 pages of illustrations. The unique collaboration between the two inventors of comic books.
Publisher's illustrated cloth in full red glazed calico, spine decorated at the top and bottom with gilt fillets and motifs with a gilt title, boards framed with black fillets and arabesques, the first with a large golden illustration in the centre, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
The upper spine end very slightly lifting, top joint of the upper board a little open, minor. Very fresh copy without any foxing whatsoever.