[Poitiers] - Recueil des plus beaux Noëls vieux et nouveaux, Choisis entre tous ceux qui ont paru jusqu'à présent - 1816

A very rare work published in Poitiers in 1816, gathering a series of Christmas carols, including among others: The Birth of Jesus - Divine Jesus, I am yours - Eve Seduced by the Serpent - Advent Hymn - Herod is Only a Politician - At Christmas Time - Shepherds, Listen to the Music, etc.

Unique copy, filled with 9 vignettes printed in chromolithography and mounted on off-text plates.

Set in an elegant 19th-century binding (later) in half ochre calf with corner decorations. Spine with raised bands adorned with a rich gilt grotesque design. Title and publication year stamped with small tools. Double gilt fillet on the covers. Gilt edges.

Condition: light rubbing to the heads, binding in good condition. Interior clean, rare foxing. Good copy of this rare work.

[Collective]
Collection of the most beautiful old and new Christmases, selected from all those published so far. New edition, corrected and expanded, with a table of contents.
In Poitiers, at Fr. Aimé Barbier's, 1816
In-12 (15.5 x 9 cm); 148 pages.