{"product_id":"antique-french-cartonnage-book-3","title":"Antique French Cartonnage Book","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAntique French Prize Book in Gilt Cartonnage, Dated 1856\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrance | 1856\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA French prize book in publisher's cartonnage: dark blue-green percaline over boards, blocked all over in gold with a foliate wreath, a scrolled cartouche and a deep leafy border, the spine lettered CONQUÊTE DE GRENADE. Published by A. Mame et Cie at Tours for their Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason to want it is bound in at the front. The prize leaf reads: Pensionnat de Mme Dupont, Grande-Rue no. 105, à Ingouville. Distribution des Prix. 3e Classe. Prix de Tapisserie, obtenu par Mlle Léontine Barras. Ce 13 Août 1856.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIngouville is now part of Le Havre. On the thirteenth of August 1856, at a girls' boarding school on the Grande-Rue, Léontine Barras won the needlework prize, and this is the book she was handed in front of the room. Her name is set down in a clerk's copperplate in brown ink, and it remains the most legible thing on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCartonnage of this kind was made to be given away, which is why the bindings are so consistently grander than the books inside them. A French publisher in the 1850s knew exactly what a prize book was for: it had to look like an achievement across a crowded hall. This one still does. The gold sits high on the cloth and catches from any angle, and the blue-green has gone deep and slightly uneven with time in the way percaline does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7.25 x 4.5 inches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitle: Conquête de Grenade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: A. Mame et Cie, Tours, Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBinding: Publisher's gilt-blocked cartonnage in blue-green percaline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresentation: Prize leaf, Pensionnat de Mme Dupont, Ingouville, Prix de Tapisserie awarded to Mlle Léontine Barras, 13 August 1856\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrigin: France\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDate: 1856\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 7.25 x 4.5 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: Good antique condition, with rubbing to the extremities and age toning to the paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Swan Hill Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49143756947675,"sku":null,"price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/0466\/6843\/files\/47659737-D83E-4555-9AF9-D45386CB43AE.jpg?v=1786822093","url":"https:\/\/swanhillhome.com\/products\/antique-french-cartonnage-book-3","provider":"Swan Hill Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}