FRENCH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT SONGBOOK - RECUEIL DE CHANSONS
[ANON]. Recueil de Chansons. [France], 1756.
Manuscript songbook. Complete in one volume. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (200 x 140 x 25 mm.). [2 - calligraphic title], 246 (hand-numbered pages), [9 - table of contents]. French - entirely manuscript on paper. Table of contents at rear. Bound in handsome contemporary French full-calf, spine gilt, red-dyed page edges, marbled endpapers. The manuscript is completely written in black ink on quality paper by an accomplished hand, each leaf with a hand-drawn border, with head- and tail-pieces, some leaves blank. Table of contents lists 104 songs. Condition: Binding tight and secure the hinges secure with slight rubbing to extremities and spine ends, moderate abrasions to boards. Interior well-preserved with some light thumbing and a few fox spots. Scarce thus.
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