Description
1870
Éditions J.Rothschild, Paris, bound, 332 pages
Dimensions: 21.7 x 16 cm
Deluxe edition illustrated on the frontispiece with a color drawing by Marie Champfleury "Tête de chat" after Burbank and in the hors-texte with :
- Édouard Manet "The Cat and the Flowers" etching
- Eugène Lambert "Jeux de chats" etching, "Le chat de la japonaise", colored plate after a screen from Japan
- Armand Gautier "La Mère chatte", etching
- Crafty "Scoundrels chasing cats", etching
- Marie Champfleury "The Lunch", etching after Burbank and double page color facsimile of a popular image from Moscow
Numerous vignettes, lamp-heads and illustrations engraved in the text. Full Chinese paper boards, title in gold on a black leather label on the spine
Condition : Cover in good condition, but yellowed pages, some of which are faded