Contes du Chanoine Schmid
By: traduction de A. Cerfberr de Médelsheim ; illustrations par Gavarni.
Contributors: Cerfberr de Médelsheim, Alphonse, 1817-1883; Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866; Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874; Birouste, J.
Publisher: A. Royer
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 390
Other titles: Contes du Chanoine Schmid :
Notes: Publisher's device on t.p.

Engraved frontispiece plate with imprints: "Gavarni inv.", "Franc̜ois sc."  and "A. Royer, Editeur." , "Imprimé par Mangeon".

Chalk lithographed portrait plate with imprint: "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.".  Tinted chalk lithographed plates with imprint: "Royer Editeur" or "Royer Edit" and  "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.".

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  A few signatures include "J. Birouste" and "Cherrier".  Includes wood-engraved decorative initials.

Includes "Notice historique et littéraire sur Christophe Schmid." signed at the end with imprint: "J. Janin." (p. [iii]-xvi).

Includes two heavier pages of music at the end with lithographed t.p.: "La veille de Noël : cantique composè et Dédiè à S. A. R.  Mme. La Desse D'Orleans par Amédée de Raoulx  ; ce cantique fait partie de la traduction des œuvres du chanoine Schmid de Mr. A. Cerfberr de Medelsheim. -- Paris, chez Royer Editeur."  T.p. includes imprints: "Lith. de Guillet" and "Jc. Galouzeau, 1842."

MASS copy: Bound in white paper-covered boards chromolithographed with floral illustrations and decorative borders.  Chromolithograph on upper cover with imprints: "Cagníard delt.", "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie." and "Série.".  Spine with imprint: "Paris, 1843.".  Lacking front free endpaper.  With presentation inscription from "Sem Hartz" to Ruari McLean.  Cf.  Ruari McLean's notes at Massey College Library.
Table of contents: value: Dédicace à Madame la duchesse d'Orléans; value: Introduction / M. Jules Janin; value: Les Œufs de pâques; value: Le petit mouton; value: La croix de bois; value: L'enfant perdu; value: La colombe; value: Le ver luisant; value: La veille de Noël; value: La corbeille de fleurs; value: Le serin; value: La chapelle de la forêt; value: Timothée et Philémon.