4to (321 x 252 mm). Two title-pages lettered in red and black with printer’s device, numerous engraved plates and illustrations (some printed in sepia, some hand-colored, some Pochoir), lettered tissue guards, numerous in-text engravings. (Some offsetting or minor toning.) 20th-century red crushed levant gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the rest gilt-decorated, top edge gilt, others uncut, board edges and turn-ins gilt, floral silk doublures, marbled endsheets (joints starting, some rubbing); brown cloth slipcase (defective).

 

LIMITED EDITION, number 162 of 200 copies recreating Bouchot’s miniatures.