L'art d'être grand-père

first edition.
Binding half red shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with double gilded boxes decorated with gilded decorative motifs, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph of the author to his friend the journalist and art critic (Jules-Antoine) Castagnary which was socialist activist and ardent supporter of Gustave Courbet.