Rabier Benjamin

réf. 208823 — Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier . Pictorial Hard Boards. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Rabier Benjamin. 64pp. A super copy of this book by Benjamin Rabier. Numeorus charming illustrations throughout by the author support the text many in colour others are line drawings. The pictures and pages are fresh and bright well preserved. Pictorial hardboards with quarter cloth. Light bumps to two corners and all corners are rubbed. Split of 2 cm to the cloth edge from the head of the spine. Light shelf weart to the boards. Tear of 1.5 cm to the lower edge of the front end paper and one of 1 cm from the front edge of the rear end paper both with no loss. Evidence of moisture to the tail of the pages leaving a faint tide mark rising to 5cm along the inner margin. This tide-mark does not affect any illustrative plate nor text. Slight wrinkling to the lower edge of the rear boards where the water damage has occured. Otherwsie the book is clean and tight. A lovely well preserved copy of this book - the leaves are not thumbed or soiled as is so often the case with childrens book. Editions Jules Tallandier hardcover