For sale is a Very Good+ condition quarter-bound leather hardcover copy of Mesdames Nos Aïevles: Dis Siècles D'Élégance by A. Robida. Illustrated with dozens of full-color plates (all present) and black and white ink in-text. Text in French language. Undated, published ca. 1860's by La Librairie Illustrée in Paris. Features gorgeous lapis lazuli marbled boards, sapphire leather quarter-stripe spine, gold foil lettering to banded spine, marbled endpapers, and a placeholder ribbon. Binding is sound and pages are unmarked, with the exception of very minor visible mesh along gutters of endpapers. Boards are clean and square with minor rubbing to corners and spine ends, and are now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve. Please see photos for condition detail.
L-1038