France, ca. 1900. A leather covered box (18 x 12 x 13 cm) consisting of five original 19th-century books, containing a bottle and two glasses. Internally decorated with leather-resembling paper. Spines with gilt bands, morocco labels and gilt titles, ‘top’ board with gilt armorial vignette.

A fine ‘bookalike’, a cute minibar, being a ‘pile’ of five genuine 19th-century leather books with French titles on the spines, holding a rectangular bottle with gilt inlays and original stop, and two identical, small, engraved glasses, underscoring the pleasance of reading, nipping and sipping at the same time. Edges a bit worn, in an appropriate manner. A very quaint, unique item.