set during the French Revolution
Moderate crushing to spine tips and a little wear to corners and edges with a bump to upper rear corner
Bound in quarter dark blue cloth with dark yellow paper boards titled (as above) in blue
[193–195] 196–447 [448]: [4] leaves of ‘plates’
and the faintest rubbing to the first volume’s front free endpaper (where some writing in pencil has clearly been erased)
L'Oeuvre de François Villon Agatha Christie set during the French RevolutionVILLON, Franois. L'Oeuvre de Franois Villon. [French text] Edition written in old French with an additional version in modern French by Raoul Mortier. Illustrated by Marcel Jeanjean. Paris, Union Latine d'Editions, 1937. Limited edition, hand numbered 1843 of the edition, printed on vlin chiffon paper from the Papeteries Navarre (one of 5,860 such copies, numbered 11417000). A good, securely bound copy, with a little wear and creasing to extremities