A. Provost - Les Trains de Plaisir - First Edition

PROVOST, A. (fl. 1834-1855).

Les Trains de Plaisir. Le Touriste en Chemin de Fer. Ligne de Paris à Versailles.

Paris: no publisher, no date [1850].

FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (16 x 24cm), unpaginated [46]. Publisher's blind stamped brown cloth with gilt titles to upper, drab endpapers. Title page, two plates and twenty chromolithographs. Undated but circa 1850.

Contemporary ownership inscription to flyleaf, moderate spotting, textblock shaken with front hinge split. Amateur tape repair to spine, boards heavily rubbed to corners. Scarce. Good.

Twenty attractive lithographs by A. Provost.