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Les chats : histoire-mœurs-observations-anecdotes / Champfleury ; illustré de 80 dessins par Eugène Delacroix [and others].

Accession number
PML 128797
Creator
Champfleury, 1821-1889, author.
Published
Paris : J. Rothschild, 1870.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Notes
"Strasbourg, Typographie de G. Silbermann"--Verso of half title.
Frontispiece includes facsimile of a Victor Hugo quotation about cats.
Title page continues: "...Viollet-Le-Duc, Mérimée, Manet, J. J. Grandville, Prisse d'Avennes, Ribot, Kreutzberger, Mind, Ok'sai, Burbanck."
Description
xvi, 332 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on half title: "A mon ami Edouard Manet / Champfleury."
Provenance
From the library of Edouard Manet; by descent to his wife Suzanne Manet (née Leenhoff) and her son Léon Leenhoff; acquired by Adolphe Tabarant probably before 1923; by descent to his daughter Lucienne Tabarant and sold by her to Mina Curtiss in 1960; purchased by the Morgan from Mina Curtiss in 1974.
Binding
1/4 purple morocco over marbled boards with a gilt-stamped spine and marbled end papers.
Classification
Department