Les Livres De L'Enfance du XVe au XIXe Siecle. Preface de Paul Gavault

Paris: En Vente a la Librairie Gumuchian & Cie, 1930. an unnumbered copy of 1000 printed. Hardbound. Blue cloth with gilt title on spines. Vol. 2 is 1/2 blue cloth with marbled paper-covered boards and original wraps bound-in. Vol. 1 wraps bound-in as well. VG, many light pencil notations with the text as if someone was checking off a collection against the catalogue. Item #125867

From James Jaffe Rare Books: Vol. I consists of 6,251 annotated entries. Volume II contains 336 plates of numbered facsimiles of title pages, bindings, illustrations, and full pages with text. Each volume has a preface, in French, by Paul Gavault; Volume I has an introduction, in English and French, by the editors and a bibliography of works consulted; Volume II has an "Index des Planches" with the English, French, or German captions for the plates 2 volumes, folio, illustrated with color-plates. A very nice, clean copy.

Price: $466.69