Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Deulin, Charles. Kauffmann, Paul Adolphe. Contes d’un buveur de bière. Cent illustrations de P. Kauffmann.

With 100 wood-engr. illus. (some full-page) by Paul Adolphe Kauffmann. 2 leaves, 272, (2) pp. 4to. 20th-century three quarter morocco with spine ornaments and gilt tooled spine title. Top edge gilt. Orig. coloured wrappers bound in. – Paris, G. Boudet, n.d. (1893).

One of 25 numbered copies on China paper. From the collection of P. Reinbold with his bookplate on first paste-down. Deulin’s „Contes“ were first published in 1868. The popular Alsatian illustrator P. A. Kauffmann (1852–1940) was particularly known with his drawings from the Franco-German war in 1870/71. – Vicaire III, 236f – Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 18564