DOUDET, Madame - [LEFÈVRE, Théodore].  - Bébé en voyage. Excursions de Monsieur Maurice.  - 1896

DOUDET, Madame - [LEFÈVRE, Théodore].

Baby on a Trip. Excursions of Monsieur Maurice.

Paris, Théodore Lefèvre & Cie, Émile Guérin, [1896].

1 vol. in-4. 32 x 24,5 cm. Half red cloth, boards with cardboard, the first board illustrated with a color illustration. 48pp.

Original edition.

Magnificent color illustration: cover, title vignette, 12 full-page illustrations some signed "Michelet Phot.", twelve initials and twelve tailpieces.

The touching adventures of a young boy during an unexpected journey to find his mother, illustrating innocence and childlike joy.

Théodore Lefèvre (1833-1904) wrote under the pen name Madame Doudet. He is published by Émile Guérin, the publisher with the designation "Librairie Théodore Lefèvre et Compagnie". Théodore Lefèvre had published as early as 1862 several ABCs and early reading exercises.
Issued from the series "Bibliothèque de bébé".

The work targets an affluent bourgeois and educated audience, keen to give their children a good education within a family setting. The word « bébé », influenced by the English baby, at that time denotes a preschool child, between 0 and 6 years.

Beautiful condition. In a gray cardboard slipcase.

Rubbing at the corners. Flexibility at the inner hinge. Small stains on the cover image.