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UNRECORDED EDITION Almanach with jolly songs and plates showing scenes of the life of each month
Almanach galant moral et critique en vaudevilles orné de gravures A.P:D.R.
Paris, Boulanger, [1789] 32mo (101 x 60 mm). 1-3 (advertisement, title page), [12] (calendar), 4-61 (songs), 21-44 (perte-gain list) pages.
With an engraved title page by Queverdo after Berthaut showing a bookshop and 12 plates showing street scenes etc.
Red morocco. On the covers a broad fillet border. Flat spine divided into compartments, with fleurons and green label. Board edges and turn ins with decorative roll. Three tubes on the front edge to put a pencil in as fastening also gold tooled. Blue end leaves. Edges gilt. Not in WorldCat, there only a copy of the year 1776; Not in KVK. Entirely engraved almanach with jolly songs and plates showing scenes of the life of each month. The first year appeared in 1786, for this year the calender of 1790 has been inserted in typeset. After the songs follows an engraved list "perte-gain" and it finishes with 8 thicker blank leaves of "papier bleuté" to make annotations.
Facing the title page is an interesting extensive engraved advertisement of all the several types of bindings on almanacs available at Boulanger.
-Literature: cf. Carteret 813, mentioning the year 1786. In the trade copies of 1775 and 1779 are mentioned.
-Condition: Pencil not present; Tax stamp on the title page; Title page printed on very thick paper. Fine copy.
With an engraved title page by Queverdo after Berthaut showing a bookshop and 12 plates showing street scenes etc.
Red morocco. On the covers a broad fillet border. Flat spine divided into compartments, with fleurons and green label. Board edges and turn ins with decorative roll. Three tubes on the front edge to put a pencil in as fastening also gold tooled. Blue end leaves. Edges gilt. Not in WorldCat, there only a copy of the year 1776; Not in KVK. Entirely engraved almanach with jolly songs and plates showing scenes of the life of each month. The first year appeared in 1786, for this year the calender of 1790 has been inserted in typeset. After the songs follows an engraved list "perte-gain" and it finishes with 8 thicker blank leaves of "papier bleuté" to make annotations.
Facing the title page is an interesting extensive engraved advertisement of all the several types of bindings on almanacs available at Boulanger.
-Literature: cf. Carteret 813, mentioning the year 1786. In the trade copies of 1775 and 1779 are mentioned.
-Condition: Pencil not present; Tax stamp on the title page; Title page printed on very thick paper. Fine copy.