La Normandie illustrée. Monuments, sites et costumes de la Seine-inférieure, de l'Eure, du Calvados, de l'Orne et de la Manche. Dessinés d'après nature par Fx. Benoist, et lithographiés par les premiers artistes de Paris [...].

6 parts in 2 vol., folio; 5 titles and 150 pl. (text n.c., foxing, marg. tear strengthened to pl. vol. I pt. I p. 60, long marg. tear in pl. vol. I pt. II p. 18, long damp stain on title of pt. IV, browning on pl. vol. II pt. V p. 14).

Contemp. three-quarter green shagreen, triple gilt-ruled marbled paper covers, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, brown spr. edges (sl. rubbed, spines faded).

Illustrated with one coloured map and 154 lithographic plates on tinted background: 5 ill. titles and 149 plates representing views of villages, cities, monuments, castles, panoramas and costumes, some partly hand-coloured (esp. plates of costumes). Ill. also with some head- and tailpieces, and title-vignettes.
ref. Brunet I:776. - Colas 294. - Béraldi II:38.