Félix BENOIST

Original color lithograph by Albert Adam, Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and Félix Benoist, used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal worming, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with 167 plates drawn from life by Félix Benoist and lithographed by leading Parisian artists including Arnout, Bachelier, Benoist, David, Fichot, Tirpenne...
Bound in half bottle-green shagreen, spines with four raised bands framed with gilt rolls and decorated with double gilt panels featuring typographic motifs and gilt heraldic ermines, gilt names and places at the foot, covers of bottle-green percaline framed with a broad gilt lace border enriched with heraldic ermines and gilt armorials, boards stamped in the centre with the gilt arms of Brittany and of the city of Nantes within a gilt mandorla, white moiré silk endleaves and pastedowns, publisher's bindi