[Music and songs]. LABORDE (Jean Benjamin de). Choix de chansons, mises en musique par M. de Laborde, gouverneur du Louvre. Ornée d'estampes en taille-douce. Rouen, J. Lemonnier, 1881. Four volumes in-4 (29x20 cm), publisher's black percaline, title and tomaison on boards, smooth spine pastedown with offset image, title-piece with tomaison. Covers. First printing. Titles, four frontispieces and 100 figures after Moreau, Le Barbier, Le Bouteux and Saint-Quentin. Head copy with etchings in double state and additional plates (pitting and browning in volume III). The entire work is mounted on tabs.

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