MARESCHAL, Auguste-Alexandre. Imagerie de la faïence françai - Lot 541

MARESCHAL, Auguste-Alexandre. Imagerie de la faïence française. Plates with patriotic emblems including the revolutionary period. 241 types lithographed from original pieces and arranged chronologically from 1750 to 1830. Beauvais, chez l'Auteur,1869. In-4°. Brown chagrin, spine with 5 fleuronné faux-nerfs, t. p. e., green morocco, double gilt fillet on boards, peacock feather head (Period binding).copy enriched with an autograph letter signed by the author about the work, Saint-Lucien, May 31, 1892, to "Monsieur" [J. Dalmon, pharmacien, 80 faub[our]g Saint-Denis, Paris], 1 p. ½. With top of autograph envelope cancelled. "The work "Imagerie de la faïence révolutionnaire", like all [those] I have published on ceramics, is out of print in bookshops, but a few copies of each of them have remained with me. It is with pleasure, sir, that I make available to you the one requested in your letter of the 30th. I won't change its initial price by letting you have it at 25 f paperback. [...]" Spine unstained, some foxing. Good copy: ● Les Faïences françaises. Foreword by Jean JOIRE. Paris, Tardy, 1949. In-12. Paperback. ● JACQUEMART, Albert. Les Merveilles de la céramique. Deuxième partie. Occident. Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1868. Small in-8° of 359 pp.Ill. in the text. Red half-basane, smooth spine, gilt title and tom. (Contemporary binding). Some foxing. ● Sale catalog at Drouot of an "exceptional international library of documentation on ceramics [...]"<. Delorme et Fraysse, November 29, 1995. With results.