La Normandie / par M. Jules Janin, illustrée par MM. Morel-Fatio, Tellier, Gigoux, Daubigny, Debon, H. Bellangé, Alfred Johannot.

Jules Janin

RA Collection: Book

Record number

11/2888

Author

Imprint

Paris: Ernest Bourdain, [1844]

Physical Description

652 p.: frontis. (port.), plates (some col.), illus., maps; 263 mm.

General Note

The printer statement is on the verso of the half-title, 'Paris - Typografie Schneider et Langrand, rue d'Erfurth, 1.' There is an engraved title-page as well as the letterpress title-page with vignette.

Published in 50 parts in 1843 under title: La Normandie historique, pittoresque et monumentale. cf. Vicaire.

Provenance

An inscription in ink on the upper right-hand corner of the front free endpaper reads 'Hubert de Stacpoole / 1853.'

Binding Note

A dark blue cloth binding with gilt and coloured decoration on both boards and spine with the gilt lettering on the spine, 'Jules Janiin / - / La / Normandie' and 'Ernest Bourdain / Éditeur'.

Subject

Normandy (France) History - Normandy (France) Description and travel

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