Victor Adam, 18 Colour Plates Of Game Birds From Musee Du Chasseur, Finely Bound
Item History & Price
Musee du Chasseur ou Collection de toutes les especes de gibier de poil ou de plumes que l'on chasse au fusil. Lithographie d'apres nature par Victor Adam. (Paris, Armand Robin, no date given but 1830s - the plates were printed at Imp[rimerie] Lemercier).
The plates are of partridge, quail, bustard, redwing, lark, corncrake, woodcock, etc. A little foxing, plates generally clean with surface sheen to parts, as if from fixative, full green morocco binding darkened (less obvious in re...ality than in the picture) and scuffed at spine and corners.
27 x 18 cms. Title page followed by 18 hand-coloured lithographed plates with blank interleaved pages, no text pages, and calligraphic hand-written Index with English translation of the birds' names. Bound in full green morocco with gilt edges to pages, gilt tooling to spine and inside edges, leather binder's ticket with monogram CL Duke Street, St. James's London to front pastedown.
Charles Lewis was an eminent bookbinder working in Duke Street in the 1830s and was engaged to bind for William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey Library. He died in 1836 and his son carried on the business.
Adam's Musee du Chasseur was published in two volumes in 1838 by Armand Robin - it has 72 plates. If the binder was Charles Lewis, as seems likely, this must have been bound before his death in 1836 or his ticket has been used on a later binding (by his son?). It is possible the plates were issued in parts before the full set was published.
The plates are of partridge, quail, bustard, redwing, lark, corncrake, woodcock, etc. A little foxing, plates generally clean with surface sheen to parts, as if from fixative, full green morocco binding darkened (less obvious in re...ality than in the picture) and scuffed at spine and corners.
27 x 18 cms. Title page followed by 18 hand-coloured lithographed plates with blank interleaved pages, no text pages, and calligraphic hand-written Index with English translation of the birds' names. Bound in full green morocco with gilt edges to pages, gilt tooling to spine and inside edges, leather binder's ticket with monogram CL Duke Street, St. James's London to front pastedown.
Charles Lewis was an eminent bookbinder working in Duke Street in the 1830s and was engaged to bind for William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey Library. He died in 1836 and his son carried on the business.
Adam's Musee du Chasseur was published in two volumes in 1838 by Armand Robin - it has 72 plates. If the binder was Charles Lewis, as seems likely, this must have been bound before his death in 1836 or his ticket has been used on a later binding (by his son?). It is possible the plates were issued in parts before the full set was published.
