This lovely two-volume set of Le Marchand d'antiquites, the French version of Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop was published in Paris in 1942. It was a hostess gift given to me by friend R. at my Victorian dinner party. How wonderfully appropriate was that, and I pressed into service as part of the decor immediately.
A stamp on the title page reveals that it was part of the "Location de livres francais et anglais" in Paris at one time...
with its location on the shelf marked by the consecutive nos. 523 and 524 on labels affixed to the spine.
There are lovely marbled covers clearly showing a well worn patina...
as do the covers' edges and wavy pages. All of these signs of its age come together to make a beautiful artifact, which exudes the feeling a past time.
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