110 - Félix BENOIST and Hippolyte LALAISSE. *Illustrated Normandy*. Monuments, Sites, and Costumes of the Seine-Inférieure, Eure, Calvados, Orne, and Manche Departments… Nantes: Charpentier Père, Fils & Cie, 1854. 6 parts in 2 folio volumes, brown half-shagreen with corner pieces, spine with 5 decorated raised bands (contemporary binding).

Félix BENOIST and Hippolyte LALAISSE. *Illustrated Normandy*. Monuments, Sites, and Costumes of the Seine-Inférieure, Eure, Calvados, Orne, and Manche Departments… Nantes: Charpentier Père, Fils & Cie, 1854. 6 parts in 2 folio volumes, brown half-shagreen with corner pieces, spine with 5 decorated raised bands (contemporary binding). Brunet, I-776 / Colas, 294 / Frère, II-343 /// I. (3f.)-XXXIV-(1f.)-108, 34 plates, 1 map / II. (1f.)-84, 25 plates / III. (1f.)-29, 23 plates / IV. (3f.)-118, 30 plates / V. (1f.)-48, 21 plates / VI. (1f.)-74, 17 pl. A collective work by Norman writers: Bordeaux, Bosquet, Charma, La Sicotière, Le Héricher, and Travers, edited by André Pottier and Georges Mancel. “The text of *Normandy Illustrated*, a work by Norman writers, is particularly remarkable for the accuracy of its historical research and local descriptions; the costumes and monuments are depicted with meticulous fidelity” (Frère). A map of Normandy, 5 color lithographed frontispieces, and 149 plates, including 126 lithographs based on works by Félix Benoist and 23 lithographs of costumes based on works by Hippolyte Lalaisse. This copy combines the text and the 5 frontispieces in the first volume and the plates in the second. The half-title page of the fourth part was bound at the beginning of the volume of plates, and a plate from the third part was bound into the text volume to serve as a frontispiece. The details of the plates differ from those provided by Colas but are perfectly consistent with the tables. The edition was published between 1852 and 1855, and Colas and Brunet mention copies with new titles dated 1858. The titles here are dated 1854. The binding is rubbed, with paper loss on the covers. Ex-libris of Dr. F. Guérin-Beaupré.