Fromont young and Risler older. Parisian manners.
Paris, G. Charpentier, 1876.
Fort in-12, 4 ff.n.ch. (the first blank) and 388 pp.: bradel brown cardboard entirely embossed with vegetal motifs, smooth spine, fawn title piece edged with a small gilt Greek, untrimmed (contemporary binding).
Reprint of the original 1874 edition, with the same number of pages.
One of the 50 copies on hollande, only large paper edition.
Nice copy in japanese binding of the time.
It belonged to Paul Arnauldet, a renowned bibliophile from Poitou, friend of Monselet and Baudelaire, described by the Goncourt family as the type of the sensual, delicate, and curious in things to eat and drink. His ex-libris, engraved by Félix Bracquemond, bears the motto Nunquam amicorum (cat. 1878, no. 594). Tiny rubbing on the upper hinge.
(Carteret, I, p. 195.- Vicar, III, col. 44).
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