{"product_id":"antique-french-red-leather-miniature-poetry-volume-poesies-nouvelles-1836-1852-by-alfred-de-musset-1905","title":"Antique French Red Leather Miniature Poetry Volume — Poésies Nouvelles (1836–1852) by Alfred de Musset, 1905","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eA finely bound miniature French literary volume titled Poésies Nouvelles (1836–1852) by Alfred de Musset, published in Paris in 1905 by Petite Bibliothèque-Charpentier (Eugène Fasquelle, Éditeur).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is bound in red leather (likely morocco or calf) with a decoratively gilt-tooled spine featuring floral ornaments and gilt titling reading A. de Musset — Poésies. The boards are plain but elegantly framed with blind-tooled border lines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside, the volume retains beautiful marbled endpapers in a classic French peacock-style pattern. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA handwritten inscription reads:\u003cbr\u003e“Souvenir affectueux de la grippe — 1919 — M.V.” (\"A fond remembrance of the influenza, 1919\"). This is almost certainly a convalescence gift — someone either visited, cared for, or emotionally supported the recipient during the 1918–1919 Spanish Flu pandemic, and marked the recovery with this very book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe page edges are gilt, and the binding remains structurally solid with attractive age patina to the leather.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a charming example of a Petite Bibliothèque-Charpentier literary edition, produced in small, elegant formats for personal libraries in the early 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"For the Louvre of Antiques LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48143824224511,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/8780\/4927\/files\/45237464-9b81-483b-b674-2f0675a1f159.png?v=1770341650","url":"https:\/\/forthelouvreofantiques.com\/products\/antique-french-red-leather-miniature-poetry-volume-poesies-nouvelles-1836-1852-by-alfred-de-musset-1905","provider":"For the Louvre of Antiques LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}