232 - THE COOKS' CHATTER (La), or How to Properly Shoe a Mule: A Dialogue Between an Old Cook and a Young Maid.

THE COOKS' CHATTER (La), or How to Properly Shoe a Mule: A Dialogue Between an Old Cook and a Young Maid. Rouen, J. F. Behourt, n.d. [Lyon, Imprimerie de L. Perrin, 1863]. In-8, [2]-6-19-[1] pages, green morocco leather, double blind-stamped raised bands, fleurons at the corners, and a gilded diamond-shaped medallion in the center, decorated spine, gilded bands on the edges, interior lace, untrimmed, gilt edges (Bruyère). A famous work published under the supervision of Gustave Véricel and printed in a limited run of only 32 copies—not offered for sale—on Louis Perrin’s presses in Lyon using Augustalian type. ONE OF THE TWO COPIES IN VELIN LEATHER, enhanced by an autograph letter from Joséphin Soulary to Gustave Véricel regarding this printing. From the Gustave Véricel library, with a handwritten bookplate. Exquisite binding by the Lyon-based bookbinder Jean Pierre Bruyère, a friend of Soulary’s.