ROBIDA (Albert)

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ROBIDA (Albert)
Old France. Normandy. - Brittany. - Touraine. - Provence. Paris, Librairie illustrée, n.d. [1890-1893]. 4 volumes in-4, burgundy half-brown with corners, spine gilt, head gilt, untrimmed (contemporary binding). Complete collection of this publication devoted to the French provinces. Remarkable lithographed illustration, in the first print run, comprising 160 plates on a tinted background and more than 800 drawings in the text. Brittany: a watercolour relating to the illustration on p. 313 (Les Marais salants du bourg de Batz), a watercolour drawing used to illustrate p. 100 (Prison à Montfort-sur-Mer), 3 original unpublished pen and ink drawings, two of which are in book format, and a watercolour etching (Lannion, maison de bois rue des Capucines). - Normandy: the watercolour of the drawing p. 137 (partly cut out). - Touraine: 3 original pen drawings used to illustrate this volume (pp. 109, 153 and 177). - Provence: 5 original pen drawings used to illustrate this volume (pp. 1, 24, 67, 71 and 117). Attached is an autograph letter from Robida concerning the publication of the Provence (one page in-12). Nice copy, well bound. Minimal binding friction
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