Le Petit Paroissien de l’enfance
Paris, Firmin Didot, s.d.
1 vol. (20 x 27 mm) of 79 p. Decorated brown leather, smooth spine decorated, roulettes and fillet framing the covers, gilt central motif (contemporary binding).
Following the fashion set in London, numerous almanacs of this kind were published in Paris after the fall of the Empire. Intended for a female clientele, these small pocket — or rather drawing-room — publications competed in minuteness and delicacy to appeal to an increasingly demanding public.
From the library of Jean-Paul Kahn.
Marginal loss of leather to the back cover.
#29743
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