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Nouveau keepsake français. Souvenir de littérature contemporaine

Louis Janet, Paris 1835, 9,5x15cm, relié.

Edition featuring many unpublished texts by several authors: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Jules Janin, Charles Nodier, Schiller, etc.. Binding strictly romantic time full cherry calf, spine tooled raised four golden threads and cold, cold jewels, golden arabesque center, gilt head and tail lace, flat boxes with a black stripe, a wide floral lace tooled and gilded spandrels punches, gilded frame of contreplats lace, caps and corners underscores a golden roulette, all edges gilt cups. The book is illustrated with eight plates hors-texte after T. Lawrence, J. Boaden, J. Wood, J. Martin, EF Pastorini, J. Hayes, JP Davis, engraved by W. Greatbach, C. Marr, Floor Rolls, EJ Roberts, W. Ensom, JW Cook, TA Dean. The keepsake, known in English bookish tradition from the 1820s, was a great success and was imitated in France from the 1830s. French collections, as evidenced by our publishing resumed engravings and English. These publications were the occasion of collaborations many French writers Balzac, Nodier, Dumas, Jules Janin, Hugo or Mérimée. They are an opportunity for women to publish many new sentimental. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!