ALMANACH. THE MEMORY OF THE MINSTRELS. P., Madame... Lot 13

[ALMANACH]. THE MEMORY OF THE MINSTRELS. P., Madame veuve Benoist, 1817. In-18 long-grained red morocco, boards decorated with a gilt chain frame, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (Binding of the period). ORIGINAL EDITION of the 4th year of this almanac published from 1814 to 1828. It remains "the most characteristic publication of the time: poetry, music, drawings, everything is of an unheard of troubadourism, and the Ossianesque holds there certainly, a bigger place than the contemporary. (Grand-Carteret). One of the VERY RARE COPIES with the FIVE colored FIGURES. A delightful copy in morocco. ¶ Grand-Carteret, 1712: "There are also some very rare copies with the colored figures.