La Vigne
Paris, France: E Plon & Co, 1878. Bertall. La Vigne: voyage autor des vins de France. [FIRST EDITION] E Plon & Co: Paris, France 1878. 4to ( mm) Contemporary half bnd green leather, gilt lettered, marbled bds & edges [6],659,[3]pp. (In French) Edges rubbed; eps foxed
Second-hand hardcover
BERTALL [Charles Albert d'Arnoux (Charles Constant Albert Nicolas, Vicomte d'Arnoux, Count of Limoges-Saint-Saëns), known as Bertall (or Bertal, an anagram of Albert) (1820-1882)]
La Vigne voyage autor des vins de France étude physiologique, anecdotique, historique, humoristique et même scientifique.
Paris : E Plon et Cie, Imprimeurs-Ėditeurs, 1878. First Edition. Printed at Paris, Typographie de E Plon et Cie. In French
Quarto (285x200mm) contemporary half bound dark green morocco, marbled boards, gilt ruled, titled and decorated spine; all edges and end-papers marbled, [6 including frontispiece and title-page],[1]-659,[3 blank]pp : π²,1-82⁴, 83². Frontispiece, 94 in-text monochrome full page engraved illustrations and more than 400 monochrome engraved decorations, all by Bertall. Lacks half-title (as bound). Boards edges and joints rubbed, hinges fine, front and rear end-papers lightly foxed, light shelf-wear; occasional faint foxing to a few pages not affecting the text.
¶ Bertall was a French nineteenth century illustrator, engraver, caricaturist, and early photographer. La Vigne, one of his later books, is a wandering tour of the wine regions of France and their great producers, illustrated with many witty caricatures and embellished with even more amusing anecdotes about the wines, vines, vignerons and consumers.
§ Bitting p.38; Crahan 482; Oberle Fritsch 138, Schraemli 50; Simon BV p110; Vicarie 87; not in Noling.
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