[SONGS]. [BERENGER]. Complete songs by Mr. J.P. Bérenger. In French, manuscript on paper. France, July 1822 copy. 573 pp. 9 pp. and (6)ff. Bound in 19th century long-grained midnight blue morocco. Large gilt framing with gilt foliage and scrolls, gilt lyre in the centre, spine decorated with gilt lyres and scrolls, inner gilt border, gilt edges, first two leaves mounted on tab. Very legible manuscript in an unsigned but fine romantic binding. Label on the back cover: "Bibliothèque de la Ville de Bordeaux N° 238. Exposition 1938 " (The art of the book from the Restoration to the Second Empire: 1815-1852). Provenance: Johannes Mercator; L. Froissard.

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