Vente 50 Partie 2 The artist and the book. Children's illustrated publications.
Par The Arc
19.7.20
Naberezhnaya Tarasa Shevchenko, d. 3, Russie
Monographs about painting and artists, some surprisingly rare children's books. The most interesting thing is at the end of the auction.
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LOT 1040:

Ernest Daudet. Nini is a songbird. in French language.


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2 000 р
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Ernest Daudet. Nini is a songbird. in French language.
Illustrations By A. Paris.

Paris. Librairie Hachette. 1903. 292 p., Fig. Size 18 x 27 cm. In hardcover with rich gold and color lettering on the binding covers and spine. Triple gold shotgun. The book is printed on vellum paper. Black-and-white illustrations (screensavers, endings, and text illustrations) are made in the face woodcut technique. Rare first edition. 

Good condition. A donation inscription in French, dated 1920. Cover scuffs, block cracks, foxings. The book describes the events that take place in the Vosges - one of the departments in the East of France, during the terror.

Ernest Daudet (31 may 1837-21 August 1921) was a French journalist, writer and historian, and the older brother of Alphonse Daudet.