Albert Laporte - [cartonnage Engel] Les Mémoires d’une hirondelle. Histoire alsacienne. - 1880-1890

Albert Laporte
The Memoirs of a Swallow. An Alsatian Story.
Paris, Librairie de Théodore Lefèvre et Cie / Émile Guérin, Éditeur, 2, rue des Poitevins, [circa 1880–1890].
Octavo (approx. 19.5 × 12.5 cm).

Publisher's binding in full red percaline, front cover richly decorated with a gold and black medallion representing a swallow in flight against a sunset background, framed with gold foliage and scrolls, long spine decorated with floral compositions and titled in gold, second cover decorated in black blind, gilt edges, printed endpapers.

Title printed in black, illustrated with a wood engraving.
A fine example of this popular late 19th-century edition, typical of the illustrated bindings of Émile Guérin, a Parisian publisher known for his prize books and children's library books.

Condition: superb copy, fresh gilding, clean binding, minor rubbing to the headcaps, very clean interior.