N.P., (France): n.p, 1877. A rarer type of scrapbook art album in which the cut and saved chromolithographed images and die-cuts are assembled into “tableaux” formed by inked lines and forms drawn by their creator. Each of the 110 pages ( approximately 28.5 x 20 cm) is a deliberate decorative composition with lines in coloured ink creating a geometric or architectural setting showing off the main chromolithographed subject and defining the “tableau” further with supplementary chromolithographs and die-cuts ( or “découpis”) carefully and artfully positioned. The range of themes is varied, with romance, nature, flowers, music, exotic costume, and simply form, itself, all being subjects. There is one fine and striking Indian chief filling up a page and surrounded by borders of tiny flowers, some bearing the message “ Je vous adore”. Many of the die-cuts are gilt highlighted. This is art populaire dreamt up from the mass culture offerings of printers, advertisers, and merchants that flooded the commercial world of the second half of the 19th century. Lovingly made for children. Unique. The album binding bears the label of “Aymès Père & Fils, Marseilles for relieurs & brochures. Art Populaire. Not just a scrapbook. Oblong 4to (20 x 28.5cm); 3 ff. blank + 110 ff. decorated with cut chromolithographs and die cuts mounted on stubs, illustrated on rectos only.