Notice Genealogique et Historique sur la Famille Mallet de Geneve; Originaire de Rouen by Choisy, Albert. Mallet family - 1930

Geneva: imprimerie Atar, 1930. xi, 163p. + contents, errata leaf, illustrated with genealogical material (listed every entry, with a long folded chart at terminus). Find a single color-lithographed armorial, numerous portraits on inserted coated stock, a facsimile map, and many facsimile signatures. The original issue was evidently much-thumbed and resorted-to and was rebound in morocco (its present condition) t.e.g., its rubricated cover-wrapper bound in, this badly chipped along bottom edge with left-margin adhesive-tape remnants or scars, smudging and dust-soil. Rear cover-wrap missing. Content otherwise clean and sound, with one pencilled autograph on ffep, of a Mallet (Percy S.) who moved to Garden City NY, datelining 1930 the publication year. The 3/4 leather job was also much-consulted and it too has suffered: front cover joint has split (although hinge is holding) and all extremities show abrasion. As is, aesthetically, but remains useful, malletically. A couple of Mallets migrated to Britain and were knighted. Curiously all Mallets mentioned are males, spontaneous generation may be behind their famousness.