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World In Miniature, Or The Contrasts Of Human Life. 1820

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MASSELIN, J.G.
The world in miniature, or The contrasts of human life. Decorated with 20 pretty engravings.

Paris, (Casimir for) Alexis Eymery, 1820, oblong in-8°, 159 pp. + 20 engraved plates (incl. the frontispiece and the title engraved with vignette), original cardboard (damaged), spine restored. 
First edition of a work for young people, where morality, put into action in short and varied stories, is illustrated by a series of pretty engravings, La Passion du Jeu, La Gourmandise, le travail, le luxe etc. With at the end a dictionary of virtues and vices.

MASSELIN, J.G. The world in miniature, or The contrasts of human life. Decorated with 20 pretty engravings. Paris, (Casimir for) Alexis Eymery, 1820, oblong in-8°, 159 pp. + 20 engraved plates (incl. the frontispiece and the title engraved with vignette), original cardboard (damaged), spine restored.  First edition of a work for young people, where morality, put into action in short and varied stories, is illustrated by a series of pretty engravings, La Passion du Jeu, La Gourmandise, le travail, le luxe etc. With at the end a dictionary of virtues and vices.