Maurice BARRÈS

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on China paper, the only copies printed on deluxe paper.

A pleasing copy.

Illustrated with plates by Louis Dunki.

First French edition, the exceedingly rare first edition having been printed in Belgium five years earlier.

Contemporary half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands highlighted with gilt dotted rules and decorated with blind fillets, a slightly split joint at the head, a few scuffs to the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges.

A small dampstain to the lower right corner of the title page.

Preface by Maurice Barrès.

One of 100 copies of the magazine printed on China paper for issues 1 to 11. The specimen issue and no. 12 are on laid paper. Our copy is complete with the spine and covers of the general binding, and the twelve illustrated covers.
First edition of the complete collection of L'image, published between 1896 and 1897.
All issues of the magazine are bound together under a half sheep binding with corners, spine with five raised bands titled in gilt, marbled paper boards. Some rubbing.
Scattered foxing and marginal tears.
Complete copy of this magazine founded by the young French corporation of wood engravers, and published by the publisher of Toulouse-Lau