Accession number:
PML 87439
Published:
[Paris] : Imp. Wittersheim, [c1840]
Description:
42 cut-outs ; 11 x 15 cm (box)
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
Hand-colored figures of men, women, servants and a boat (bark). Five figures and the boat have wooden stands. The object is to get the people across the water when the boat can contain only two persons at a time.
Folded rules sheet, signed Imprimerie de Wittersheim, rue Montmorency, 8.
Title of rules sheet: L'utile précaution, ou Les maitres et les domestiques.
Inside the lid is a bookseller's label: Maison A. Giroux, Paris.
Binding:
In its original box with gold paper trim and colored print label. Within modern blue case by Bennett 1977. .
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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