Charming Little Red Morocco Leather Almanac From 1788: "the Laces Of Venus" (hat Designs)

"The Laces of Venus" Almanac reprinted by Mr. Emile Liez from the original copy in his collection (limited edition of 400 copies (100 for sale) No. 345; Devambez, Engraver and Art Publisher, Passage des Panoramas, 63; Paris. Year 1788). This charming and delicate copy is bound in beautiful red morocco leather, the covers adorned with medallions depicting a gallant scene of two ladies of the court playing blind man's bluff with a putto, a border frieze on the covers, a smooth spine decorated with a gilt serpentine tool, endpapers of rich domino paper, with the calendar for the two semesters of 1788 at the beginning and end, and 12 beautiful figures of ladies with their hats printed on thick paper... A little gem worthy of Marie Antoinette's household, with all the poetry and the carefree attitude of that period at the end of Louis XVI's reign...