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MELCHERS, FRANZ; and THOMAS BRAUN. L'An. Poëmes. Cover design and 16 beautiful color plates representing each month plus 4 for each season, by Melchers. Square folio, 303x295 11x11 3/4 inches, contents shaken and disbound from marbled wrappers from broken binding threads; plates clean but for very mild toning and light creasing to very outer margins. Brussels: E. Lyon-Claesen, 1847
a beautiful color plate work by melchers employing his style of Japonisme and Art Nouveau to depict the seasons in Belgium. The Turn of the Century, 89.
