{"product_id":"petit-diablotin-le-marcilly-rue-st-jacques-no-21-paris-circa-1826","title":"Petit Diablotin, Le. Marcilly. Rue St. Jacques No. 21. [Paris]. Circa 1825.","description":"\u003cp\u003e64 pages in French. 8 full-page illustrations. Engraved throughout. Microscopically engraved songbook. All edges gilt. Original cream endpapers. 16 x 22 mm. Original full brown moroccco. Spine and covers with gilt tooling. Complete with what I have speculatively described as the original and individual retail packaging that held the almanac to a parcel of chocolates when first sold: an arabesque shaped card container with blue silken threads in a loop at the top and pale green silk fringe in adornment at the front. The matching silk base has worn and is somewhat threadbare. It seems lilely that famous confectioners, like Auger, located around the Palais-Royal or the Grands Boulevards would buy quantities of miniature almanacs like \u003cem class=\"eujQNb\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px none rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eLe Petit Diablotin \u003c\/em\u003edirectly from publishers like Marcilly. They placed the tiny books inside the slot of a custom-designed holder, and attached the holder with glue to a carton of \u003cspan class=\"Yjhzub\"\u003egourmet chocolate pastilles, pralines, or sugarplums.\u003c\/span\u003e Not in Bondy. Not in Spielmann. For a larger copy, 19 x 26 mm., see Grand-Carteret, 2029 - (Gaston Tissandier, Georges Salomon collection). Houghton, 107. Welsh, 5566. OCLC, 45414972. WorldCat locates two copies of the larger copies worldwide (Pierpont Morgan, and The Strong N.Y.).  There are no other copies recorded of this title with such small dimensions. Contemporary illustrations for Tissandier of the copy of this title in the Georges Salomon collection clearly show that it was a larger copy with numbered pages, like the ones in Pierpont Morgan and The Strong. This copy is so much smaller that the numerals and margins were evidently not included, making it exceptionally rare.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camden Lock Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56267447959931,"sku":"mbs26.029","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0430\/3313\/3212\/files\/P5250684_c97b3d69-b084-4384-b2fb-5657f86b37d3.jpg?v=1779725074","url":"https:\/\/camdenlockbooks.com\/products\/petit-diablotin-le-marcilly-rue-st-jacques-no-21-paris-circa-1826","provider":"Camden Lock Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}