The marbled boards are rubbed and the leather is badly rubbed at the edges and along the spine; there is what looks like a thin tape stain on the verso of the front end paper and a Dymock's Book Arcade stamp on the half title page; the preliminaries and the last index page have yellowed with age and the back end paper has a very small, triangular strip missing from the middle of outer edge; both hinges are exposed though the binding remains solid and a few pages suffer from minor foxing intermiitently throughout the book. Raised bands with gilt decoration and print, though as stated, the leather is. badly rubbed. 264 pages. "Tiré à 500 exemplaires sur papier Vergé. Ex. N° ___" The space stating which number is blank. Overall a nice, though obviously used copy, clean, unmarked .. No publishing date given, late 19th century, early 20th. Charles Collé (14 April 1709 - 3 November 1783) was a French dramatist and songwriter. This is how google translated the title: 'Badine Songs Glued New Edition of Glue' - and 'GLUE (Charles). - Sticky songs of Collé. New edition .' Love it!