Livre des mille et une images
Subtitle: album des récréations. Cette intéressante et nombreuse collection de gravures offre, aux jeunes gens, un délassement utile et sans danger; aux jeunes dessinateurs, un choix étonnant et varié de modèles tout genre; aux coloristes, une suite inépuisable de sujets ...
Publisher: Typographie de J. Casterman
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Tournai
Language: fre
Subjects: Wood-engraving, English; Wood-engraving, French
Other titles: Album des récréations
Notes: "Collection of nealry two thousand wood engravings by well-known English and French engravers of the period and including many cuts of much earlier date. Many of the blocks are those used in "The Penny magazine," 1832, and similar popular illustrated magazines, both French and English." cf. Birrell & Garnett, ltd. Popular woodcuts, XVIIIth & XIXth centuries. Catalogue 35.