Chansons de France pour les petits français
By: avec accompagnements de J.B. Weckerlin. ; Illustrations par M.B. de Monvel
Contributors: Weckerlin, J.-B. 1821-1910; Boutet de Monvel, Louis-Maurice, 1851-1913; Aldrich Collection (Brown University)
Publisher: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, imprimeurs-éditeurs  8, rue Garancière, Paris -- 6e
Published: 1884
Place of publication: [Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Children's songs, French; Folk songs, French
Notes: Twenty-four folksongs for children, with music for voice and piano

"Paris. Typographie Plon-Nourrit et Cie, rue Garancière, 8. Encres de couleur de la maison Lorilleux et Cie."--verso of half title, beneath illustration of a flower and a butterfly

Imprint on cover: Librairie Plon/rue Garancière 10 à Paris

First published in 1884 according to Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (s.v. Weckerlin); cf. NUC pre-56 NW0144032, though the copy there described, as here with "Plon-Nourrit" imprint, must be from later issue than copies with "E. Plon, Nourrit" imprint

Signatures: [1]-[3]p8s

Binding: Calico, small flowers with white petals and green centers on a red ground; front cover title in black, with wildflower decoration (unsigned) and imprint in silver; cream laid endpapers; all edges blue; red silk tie

Variant binding: Coarse endpapers; edges not colored; no tie.

Brown Univ. copy with printed ticket tipped onto front free endpaper, "Majoration temporaire ... sur les prix marqués. (Décision syndicale.)"

Bibliographie Francaise listes Plon-Nourrit at 8 Rue Garancière prior to 1908

Le Soudier  Bibliographie Française. v. 1 (1900-1904), published 1908

King Collection copies differ slightly. One copy in red cloth as described, stamped Librairie Plon, Garancière 10, Paris on upper cover, printed ticket tipped in as in Brown University copy (1900); other copy (1902) in pink cloth having blue-centered daisy pattern, upper cover stamped E. Plon-Norrit, Rue Garancière 10, Paris, and one page publisher's ad at end which includes titles published as late as 1902