[Trade cards – Chocolate box cards]; La Fontaine, Jean de, Abbé Aubert, et al

[Suite of Sixteen Chocolate Box Trade Cards with accompanying engraved plates].

A Paris: chez E. Jourdan, quai des Augustins, n. 17, [circa 1825].

Sixteen numbered poems printed on trimmed laid paper (the largest measuring 8 x 8.5 cm.), accompanied by sixteen corresponding engraved plates (sheet sizes circa 12.75 x 9.75 cm., and images 5 x 3.75 cm.). The imprint is provided at the bottom edge of plates no. 6 and 14. Bonbon box trade cards to be collected by children, the texts including fables and poems (four apiece) by La Fontaine, Abbé Aubert, Pierre- Louis Ginguené, and Antoine Le Bailly. Near fine. [Bibliographie de la France (1825) no. 825, records the following publication (page 871): Dont la publication et la vente sont autorisées, conformément à la loi du 25 mars 1822 (art. XII), et à l’ordonnance du roi du 1o mai 1822. 865. Douze Planches, divers petits sujets pour bonbons. A Paris, chez Jourdan, quai des Augustins, n. 17].

Price: $900.00