Paper Construction.- Bécourt (A. de) Arte di Costruire ogni sorti di oggetti in Rilievo e in Carta per servire ad istruzione e passatempo della gioventu’..., first edition in Italian, 2 engraved frontispieces and 23 plates, most folding, light foxing, uncut in the original printed blue wrappers (reusing printer's waste of Ovid's 'Metamorphoseon' of Florence 1829, also with engraved title as endpapers), traces of old label, rubbed, spine faded and frayed at ends, Florence, Vincenzo Batelli, 1830 [wrapper dated 1831] § Lebrun (C.F.) Nouveau Manuel Complet du Cartonnier, du Cartier et du fabricant de Cartonnages, second edition, half-title, 4 folding engraved plates (plates 3 & 4 added for this edition), 90pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original printed buff wrappers with wood-engraved vignette, uncut, slightly soiled and frayed at edges, rebacked, Paris, Roret, 1845; and another, 8vo et infra (3)

⁂ The first is a translation of Art de fabriquer toutes sortes d'ouvrages en papier pour l’instruction et l'amusement des deux sexes, 1828. One of the two frontispieces, a picture of a tower, was also used in Blasche’s Papyro-Plastics; the other, an aquatint, depicts a charming scene of a family constructing figures round a table.