Les Etrennes à la Rose ou le Rosier d'Amour. (New Year's Gifts with Rose or the Rosebush of Love)

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Bound in full red leather with tooled design on spine with a green title label and a simple line banding on boards with blue endpapers. It would have been closed with a stylus, but the stylus missing. All edges are gilt. Collation: Decorative title page; the calendar heading is L an lX de la républ. Franç and starts from September 1800-August 1801. (Farming Year); 24 pages; 20 pages titled Ariettes nouvelles [New Stories] ; 46 pages; 18 pages of blank pages for notes; Calendar, January to December at rear of book. Bound in full red leather with tooled design on spine and a simple line banding on boards with blue endpapers. All edges are gilt. . Illustrated with 12 fine copper engravings showing loving couples near roses. The leather is lightly worn, worn at edges of binding, spine rubbed. The pages are very clean, generally a very good copy. The dates of the French Revolution are 1789-1799, this being published just afterwards when France has just been proclaimed as a French Republic. Size 96 x60mm (3.75 x 2.25 inches) Jubert, bookbinder and gilder, was a path-breaking almanac publisher. His son-in-law, Pierre-Etienne Janet, took over the business in 1790 and continued in his father-in-law s business, producing almanacs illustrated with 12 fine copper engravings with a calendar etc. . By this collection I have purchased, you could purchase different themed almanacs each year. N° de ref. del artículo 60003013

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