Nos Jolis Animaux : Petites Leçons Pour de Petits Lecteurs. Imité de l’anglais par le traducteur du Ministère de l’enfance. Deuxième Édition. Toulouse: Société des Livres Religieux, 1873.
(175 x 135 mm) pp. 40 + 2 yellow flyleaves. Bound in illustrated printed cardboard. Embellished with black and white illustrations and chromolithographic plates. Some splitting on bottom quarter of spine, but in sturdy condition. Overall GOOD condition.
A sweet little autobiographical sketch of life in (somewhat) rural France from the perspective of a 10 year old child. The animals— cats, dogs, donkeys, rabbits, lambs—all plany an educational part in the tapestry of youth.