Les Jeux Du Cirque et La Vie Foraine (Circus Acts & the Fairground Life) Sold
Price: £150.00
A marvelous evocation of the circus and fairground performers of the time (1889) written by the Frenchman Hugues le Roux. This copy bound in half red Morocco, decorated boards, gilt titles to spine, five raised bands. A really beautiful copy of a splendid book. many illustrations integrated within the text after photographs, and hand coloured. A classic of circus literature covering, clowns, midgets, jugglers, arcobats, animal trainers, horse acts, fairgrounds. A stunning copy in excellent condition.
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