Musée Universel. Album-Livre

COLLECTIF
First edition.
Full cloth binding, smooth spine slightly faded and richly decorated with rococo tools with blue and green highlights, front board decorated with an important gilt plate with fabric highlights of different colors surrounding a titled medallion, frame of blind-stamped fillets, back board decorated with a gilt tool with architectural motif in the rococo taste and frame of blind-stamped fillets, jonquil paper pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, publisher's Romantic binding.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and very numerous black and white engravings in and outside the text.
This is an album-book dealing with various subjects: Study of Russian customs. David Wilkie, English Painter. Modern industry and the holy places. In Kabyle Country. A visit to the Jardin des Plantes.
Some foxing and minor defects of use to the binding.