Almanach pour cette année bissextile M D CC LXXXVIII
By: supputé par Me Mat. Laensbergh, mat
Contributors: Poortere, Carlo de, 1917-2002, former owner
Publisher: Chez la Veuve S. Bourguignon
Published: 1788
Place of publication: A Liege
Language: fre
Subjects: Belgian Almanacs; Early works to 1800; French Chapbooks
Other titles: Almanach pour cette année bissextile 1788
Notes: Rare Book copy: Contemporary embroidered binding (probably commissioned by the publisher) of cream silk-covered boards, decorated with metallic thread, purl, sequins, and variously colored metal foil; sides with overall background decor of tiny vertical strips of purl, metal strip borders over-sewn with an s-wavy overlay of couched purl, garlands at top and bottom of couched purl and sequins, a central cartouche framed in green sequins, with a different floral bouquet on each cover, composed of purl and colored foil, backstrip similarly decorated, gilt edges, pink satin liners; loss to part of the central bouquet on upper cover.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Carlo de Poortere (1917-2002), with his bookplate.