ca. 1781 [date of calendar] · Paris
by (BINDINGS - OPENWORK CALF). (LÉON GRUEL, His Copy)
Paris: Chez Cailleau, ca. 1781 [date of calendar]. 95 x 58 mm. (3 3/4 x 2 1/4"). 32, [16] (calendar), 33-64 pp.
DELIGHTFUL CONTEMPORARY OPEN-WORK CALF over green textured paper, covers with blind-tooled frame and central scene stamped in relief, cut out, and laid over background paper, upper cover depicting a man and woman watching a child play with a squirrel, with the caption "It is very amusing"; lower cover showing a mother and baby watching two children dance, captioned "Let us always be gay, my Queen"; smooth spine tooled with scrollwork, patterned gilt endpapers, all edges gilt. Front pastedown with bookplate of Léon Gruel. ◆Binding lightly (truncated)
DELIGHTFUL CONTEMPORARY OPEN-WORK CALF over green textured paper, covers with blind-tooled frame and central scene stamped in relief, cut out, and laid over background paper, upper cover depicting a man and woman watching a child play with a squirrel, with the caption "It is very amusing"; lower cover showing a mother and baby watching two children dance, captioned "Let us always be gay, my Queen"; smooth spine tooled with scrollwork, patterned gilt endpapers, all edges gilt. Front pastedown with bookplate of Léon Gruel. ◆Binding lightly (truncated)