ALBUM AMICORUM. Denkmal der freudschaft. Berlin, 1839. Oblong in-12 format box with green morocco spine decorated, plates decorated with a large frieze of green and red morocco with gilt lace, central decoration with bookplate struck in a red morocco diamond, gilt edges. Charming album amicorum offered to Julienne Crilasque by her cousin Louise Giovanoly. It consists of a colour engraving with German captions and 20 handwritten leaves containing poems and other texts, all in German, written by relatives or friends of Julienne Crilasque. The whole is preserved in a charming box with romantic decoration of the period.

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