LES BOIS ET LES CHAMPS.
Rimes Enfantines par l'auteur du "Livre Des Bebes." [cover title]. Pp. [16], printed on rectos only and illustrated in colour throughout; small cr. 4to; pictorial card wrappers, slightly soiled and worn, edges lightly rubbed, with several small chips or splits to backstrip; free endpapers quite browned, a little faint foxing; Vve Magnin & Fils, Paris, n.d.[c. 1880s?]. *Eight full page chromolithographs printed in Holland by L. Van Leer et Cie, each with brief verse in French. As indicated by the title, the illustrations, by T. H. Collins, are all rural scenes. One is set in the Australian bush and features kangaroos, parakeets and a lyrebird. The anonymous author was perhaps Helene Sachot, whose book Le Livre des Bebes, illustrated by the American artist Ida Waugh, was also published by Magnin. Item #150825
Price: $800.00