ANONYME, Alfred FRANKLIN
Journal du siège de Paris en 1590 rédigé par un des assiégés
Léon Willem|Paris 1876|13 x 20 cm|relié
Edition published from the original manuscript in the Mazarine Library, one of 320 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only printing with 30 on Whatman.
Half blue morocco binding, faded spine with five raised bands decorated with the gilt monogram of the great bibliophile Roger de Cormenin repeated five times, one joint slightly cracked at head, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, near-contemporary binding.
Text preceded by a study on the customs and manners of Parisians in the 16th century by Alfred Franklin.
Work illustrated with a double frontispiece plate.
Provenance: from the library of Roger de Cormenin, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and also the intimate friend of Gustave Flaubert.
Handsome copy elegantly bound.
Half blue morocco binding, faded spine with five raised bands decorated with the gilt monogram of the great bibliophile Roger de Cormenin repeated five times, one joint slightly cracked at head, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, near-contemporary binding.
Text preceded by a study on the customs and manners of Parisians in the 16th century by Alfred Franklin.
Work illustrated with a double frontispiece plate.
Provenance: from the library of Roger de Cormenin, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and also the intimate friend of Gustave Flaubert.
Handsome copy elegantly bound.
€100