Noah's Ark. Guigou, Paul (Auth).
L'Arche
De Noe.
ill. Auguste Vimar.
Paris: Librairie Plon, No date, but 1894 per BNdeF . Oblong 4to.
Very Good / No Jacket.
48 pgs. Blue cloth with pictorial
pastedown label with gilt background, pastedown label rubbed, one long scrape,
binding slightly shaken, top corner bumped, previous owner's name on endpaper,
2 pages with small archival mends. An imagining of what might have taken place
upon Noah's Ark. Illustrated in color on nearly every page. Artwork appears as
full-page, partial-page and small vignettes. The vignettes could almost be a
pre-cursor to Benjamin Rabier's style. The animals are presented realistically
but not without humor and some humanization. It's quite a fun book and an
uncommon Noah's Ark.
Inv: 8880