Mon oncle Barbassou

First edition.
Half red morocco with corners, spine with four raised bands decorated with quadruple gilt compartments, gilt date at foot, moiré-effect paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, soiled original wrappers preserved, all edges gilt, elegant unsigned late 19th-century binding.
Fine engraved bookplate depicting the Parthenon pasted on pastedown
Handsome copy attractively bound.