172x107mm red gilt and blindstamp decorated cloth (edges rubbed slightly marked) All Edges Gilt. Half title + Frontispiece + pictorial titlepage + iii +377pp. Aside from minor foxing to the endpapers this is a lovely clean bright tight copy (cf. Gumuchian for other editions of this by Didier). *Anatole France mentions this book in his biography. It begins with a fire and the death of a favourite teacher at a school for boys, and their travel adventures.