Gustave GEFFROY

First edition printed on laid paper.
About Auguste Rodin, Rembrandt, Gustave Doré, Jules Chéret, symbolism, the salon of 1892...
Spine and boards partially sunned, two small stains to upper right corner of front board.
Our copy is complete with its original drypoint by Auguste Rodin as frontispiece.

First edition, one of the copies on Japon.
Texts by Jules Renard, Anatole France, Sully-Prudhomme, Gustave Geffroy, Louis Tynaire, Gabriel Séailles, René Binet, Georges Renard...
Lithographed or wood-engraved illustrations in red and black by Eugène Carrière, Félix Régamey, Carlos Schwabe, Georges Rochegrosse, Alfred Lenoir, Auguste and Georges Leroux, Daniel Vierge, Charles Fouqueray, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Lucien Vogel, Charles Léandre, Henri Fantin-Latour, Eugène Grasset, Alexandre Lunois, Georges Scott...
Bradel binding in full paper, palladium title on smooth spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge palladium.
Handsome copy...

First edition illustrated with 25 original wood engravings by Géo-Dupuis, one of 130 numbered copies on China paper and reimposed in quarto soleil format.
Half navy shagreen binding with corners, spine sunned with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by L. Bernard.
Our copy, as stipulated in the justification page, does include the double state of the wood engravings.
Some minor foxing. Handsome copy despite the sunned spine.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Arches paper, deluxe issue.
Our copy, like all copies from the deluxe issue, is complete with its original etching in double state signed by Auguste Brouet.
Work illustrated with 270 plates reproducing the artist's engraved work.
The slipcase of the second volume is worn.
Handsome copy.

Edition printed on rod.
Signed autograph of the author Henry Fevre (sic).
Our copy is full of its original drypoint by Auguste Rodin frontispiece.
About Auguste Rodin, Rembrandt, Gustave Doré, Jules Cheret, symbolism, 1892 show ...
A few bites on the back and evenly insolated boards, a small tear in the back head.