Joseph Jacquin - Les Animaux en Aéroplane - 1905

First edition thus. French children's hardback illustrated book. With delightful colour illustrations by G. H. Thompson. Undated but circa 1905. Joseph Jacquin was the editor-in-chief of the illustrated children's periodical 'Mon journal'. This is one of the ten albums he and Thompson adapted from work by Graham Clifton Bingham between 1903 and 1922. Cloth spine and boards in very good, clean condition. A little bumping to the corners only, with some light marking to the white rear board. B/w and colour illustration, both full-page and in text; all very clean and fresh looking. EIGHT full page colour plates. The central gather is detached at the staples, but has been neatly repaired / fixed in place with archival tape. 25.5 x 31.5 cm

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