Horace Bertin — Les Heures Marseillaises

Marseille, Laveirarie, 1878. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first limited edition of Horace Bertin's charming ode to his hometown, Marseille. A limited edition of four-hundred and fifty-five copies, this being number two-hundred and twelve of two-hundred and twenty-five printed on paper vellum.Sumptuously bound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards.Illustrated with a frontispiece by A. Moutte.A charming view of Marseille, this work takes the reader hour by hour through an ordinary day in the city in the nineteenth century.The author, Horace Bertin, the pseudonym of Simon Bense, was a poet and journalist native to Marseille. This lovely work is imbedded with his love for his hometown, where a street is named after him. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, fine. A couple of very light marks to the boards. Extremities are a little rubbed. Label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the occasional scattered spot. Near Fine . Ill.: A. Moutte. Near Fine .