Keepsake lyrique. Recueil de 12 romances, chansonnettes et cavatines

Keepsake lyrique. Recueil de 12 romances, chansonnettes et cavatines
Leduc, Paris 1835, 24,6x31cm, full morocco binding.
First edition of this music collection by Rossini, Meyerbeer, Halevy, Bellini, Caraf, Donizetti... with 12 lithographs by Eugène Isabey, Gavarni, Devéria, Charlet, Bellange, Camille Rogier, Monthelier, on chine paper, mounted on thick paper.
Contemporary full purple morocco binding, housed in a goffered cloth case, spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind, pink moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt, printed on fine paper.
Slightly rubbed.
Superb copy.
Remarkable example of salon music that embellished the evenings during the Bourbon Restoration in France.