[F. FERTIAULT] Les Amoureux du Livre [Paris: 1877]

Illustrated bibliophile edition about the love for books.

Les Amoureux du Livre

Sonnets d’un Bibliophile, Fantaisies, Commandements du Bibliophile, Bibliophiliana, Notes et Anecdotes par F. Feriault. Préface du Bibliophile Jacob (Paul Lacroix). Seize Eaux-fortes de Jules Chevrier.

Paris: A. Claudin, 1877.
Small 4to. xxxix, [v], 396, [iv] pp. Modern full cloth, original wrapper front and back laid down on the boards.
An etched frontispiece and a portrait. 6 full-page plates, and 8 smaller etchings. All etchings by Jules Chevrier (1816-1883).
Finely printed on laid paper. The etchings with tissue guards.

A fine copy, albeit in a modern cloth binding. The original covers laid down on the cloth.