Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

STOP (i.e. Louis Pierre Gabriel Bernard Morel-Retz, 1825–1899). Ces Messieurs. Travestissements Fantaisistes.

Suite of title with hand-coloured vignette, 24 hand-coloured plates, and explication leaf with hand-coloured vignette at the end. All together 26 leaves. 4to. Contemp. pink cloth with gilt-lettered title on front board. – Paris, Journal Amusant and Petit Journal pour Rire, n.d. (1876).

Edition originale. Album with 24 dressed up male figures. The explications at the end give instructions how to manufacture the costumes. – Benezit VI, 217. – Boards faded in parts. Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 22353