Accession number
PML 86999
Creator
Drack, Maurice, 1834-
Published
Epinal : Pellerin & Cie, Imp. Edit. Epinal, [ca. 1885].
Credit line
Gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Anonymous children's book printed in brown ink; illustrated with chromolithographs in the text by Paul Kauffmann.
Contains twenty original drawings, some in pen-and-ink, others in pen-and-ink and watercolor, by the well-known French illustrator Paul Kauffmann, famous for his Alsatian subjects.
Laid in: ALS from Maurice Drack in Paris mentioning his late father in a manner that suggests that the father might have been the author of this text.
Bound as album with drawings facing the lithographs.
The story itself is set in eighteenth-century France and concerns the adventures of a whimsical sprite who cheerfully gets his revenge.
Contains twenty original drawings, some in pen-and-ink, others in pen-and-ink and watercolor, by the well-known French illustrator Paul Kauffmann, famous for his Alsatian subjects.
Laid in: ALS from Maurice Drack in Paris mentioning his late father in a manner that suggests that the father might have been the author of this text.
Bound as album with drawings facing the lithographs.
The story itself is set in eighteenth-century France and concerns the adventures of a whimsical sprite who cheerfully gets his revenge.
Description
1 v. : ill. ; 28 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Modern gray cloth, all edges gilt.
Classification
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