Louis BATISSIER

Second edition with some parts in first edition as it was revised.
Half mint green sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with double blind-stamped compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Work abundantly illustrated with numerous wood-engraved vignettes as well as 4 hand-colored lithographic plates by Hauger after Lasteyrie, showing stained glass windows for the treatise on glass painting.
Handsome copy.

Second edition with some parts in first edition as entirely revised by the author.
Half navy blue morocco binding, spine with five raised bands showing minor rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Work illustrated with numerous engravings in the text as well as 4 chromolithographs hors-texte.
Some foxing affecting almost exclusively the tissue guards of the chromolithographs.