LEBRETON (Théodore). Nouvelles heures de repos d'un ouvrier. - Lot 492

LEBRETON (Théodore). Nouvelles heures de repos d'un ouvrier. Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1842. In-8 contemporary romantic hardback with gilt decoration and title on black background. Faded boards. Théodore Eloi Lebreton (1803-1883), poet and biographer from Rouen, member of several learned societies, employed at the Rouen Library (with special responsibility for the Leber Library). In 1848, he was appointed representative of the Seine-Inférieure department and sat on the Constituent Assembly. For the first few years of his life, he worked in an Indian factory. He is the author of several collections of poetry and a large number of detached verse pieces, written for a variety of occasions. Frontispiece portrait and several illustrations engraved on a tinted background outside the text. One of the copies with the plates printed on Chine and the fleurons printed in color and gold. E.A.S. from the author to Brother Depeaux (Félix, célestin, 1815-1891). A few small brown spots. Ex-libris J.M. (Frère II, 178.)