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Booklet of 16 dust-jackets stapled together

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Title

Booklet of 16 dust-jackets stapled together

Description

1895? Booklet of 16 dust-jackets stapled together. Algis and G. Dascher. published by C(amille) Charier in Saumur, France. €33 from Maxime Chupin, Carqueiranne, France, through Ebay, July, ’21.

Here is a remarkable experience and a remarkable object. The experience is that it had taken me some nine months to arrive at cataloguing a set of unusual early dust-jackets just a few days ago. Then an object arrived that I had ordered on Ebay because it was unusual: a stapled booklet presenting 16 images consecutively in the first half on the right side of the booklet and then, in reverse order on the left-hand pages, the La Fontaine fable texts for those illustrations. What happened here? Did someone gather the dust jackets and assemble them? Was that someone the publisher? As with the individual dust jackets, so in the booklet: while the common top and left frame scene is signed by “Algis,” some of the inset illustrations are signed by “Algis” and others by “G. Dascher.” Camille Charier seems to be the publisher. The texts are printed not only in different colors but in differing typefaces. What a strange find! I show the booklet with edges exposed in hopes that viewers can see the four staples at the central crease of this booklet.

Source

€33 from Maxime Chupin, Carqueiranne, France, through Ebay, July, ’21.

Date

Collection

Carlson Fable Collection

Citation

“Booklet of 16 dust-jackets stapled together,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed January 11, 2025, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1066.

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