Album orné

Collection assembled by an anonymous hand of chromolithographs and engravings. Numerous pages with various frames, Gothic and ornamental, intended to receive engravings. Frontispiece in chromolithography heightened with colors. The papers intended to receive drawings, engravings or chromos are of various colors: blue, green, cream, pink. The collection ends with music sheets that have remained blank.

English publisher's binding in full burgundy shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with a large ornamental Romantic plaque. Boards with a central raised rectangle decorated with a large stamp with the inscription: Album orné, blind-stamped frame. Rich Renaissance frieze in framing paper. Blind-stamped framing frieze and framing fillets with small corner stamps. Endpaper representing a large lace pattern.
This type of collection, intended for families and filled with engravings or drawings, is a beautiful and rare testimony of the Romantic era. Dressed in a rich publisher's binding, it was made to adorn drawing rooms. The pages have one or several frames and therefore one or several engravings that were cut out and then pasted. One finds engravings, lithographs, some in color, 2 drawings, a wash drawing, all on 60 leaves.
Rare testimony of the Romantic era, family or personal keepsake, in a rich English publisher's binding.

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