Title
Histoire naturelle des animaux les plus remarquables de la classe des mammifières. . . .
Coverage
Tours:
Publisher
Alfred Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs-Libraires,
Date
1860.
Subject
Gift of Jan Storm van Leeuwen in memory of Sue Allen.
Description
Alfred Mame founded his firm in Tours, France, in 1795. It soon grew into an extensive printing and bookselling enterprise including a vast industrial-scale bindery housing more than a thousand workers. This embossed and gilt paper-covered binding, featuring a chromolithographed paper inset, is characteristic of Mame’s series for young Christian readers, the “Bibliotheque de la jeunesse chretienne.” The series was modestly priced, and schools often distributed the volumes as prize books.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School