Albert LAPORTE

Illustrated edition with plates.
Publisher's half red shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with triple gilt compartments, minor scratches to joints and spine, frame of blind fillets on red paper boards, white moiré silk endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, all edges gilt.
Some foxing.

First edition.
Half black shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands decorated with quadruple gilt fillets and adorned with a gilt fleuron enriched with a red shagreen mosaic piece, light scratches of no consequence to the joints, cold-stamped fillet and interlacing frame on boards, gilt edges, binding signed by Charles Magnier.
Work illustrated with 73 engravings in and outside the text.
Some minor foxing.