French Provincial Songs Chansons 1889 F. Lix color plate music & lyrics book

(Old Books, 19th Century Books, French Books, Songs, Lyrics, Illustrated Books, Song Books).

Chansons et Rondes Enfantines des Provinces de la France Avec Notices et Accompagnement de Piano, by J.-B. Weckerlin.
Published 1889, Paris by Garnier Freres.
c. 65 pages. Text in French. Illustrated throughout, eight attractive color lithographed plates plus numerous line drawings by F. Lix.

Publisher's cloth binding, embossed title lettering, gilt floral pictorial cover decorations. The original cover fore-edge ribbon ties are lacking.

Book is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. Book is not new or in "new" condition.

About a dozen pages in the middle of the text block display some slight edge damage with a few minor short edge splits to them, nothing offensive but worth noting.

Binding gently age worn, cloth worn down at spine ends, mostly light or inoffensive signs of handling and time but nothing severe or unsightly, book remains overall attractive as an object.

Paper is gently toned, still clean, tight, sound internally.

Still attractive on the shelf. The book displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in overall nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws which may be present seem easy to overlook or forgive. 

Please review photos for more detail showing how this book survives. The asking price reflects the condition based on our examination and 35+ years full time exposure to antiquarian books, maps and printed ephemera of all types and genres. Flaws seen and/ or described have been taken into account.

Book Measures c. 11 1/4" H x 7 1/2" W.

[B11503].