Georges MONTORGUEIL, Jules GERVAIS-COURTELLEMONT
Croquis parisiens. Les Plaisirs du dimanche. A travers les rues
Librairies-Imprimeries réunies|Paris 1896|35.50 x 47.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise
First edition, one of four copies on grand japon imperial paper, deluxe printing, ours unnumbered. Illustrated with photographs by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont in heliotype.
Publisher's full cardboard chemise, blue-silver stamped decoration on front cover, endpapers with Japanese-style cloth motifs, corners slightly bumped, most ties missing, covers with light marginal stains.
Superb copy on japon paper of these tableaux of Parisian life during the Belle Époque, through the lens of Gervais Courtellemont, with commentary by Georges Montorgueil.
Publisher's full cardboard chemise, blue-silver stamped decoration on front cover, endpapers with Japanese-style cloth motifs, corners slightly bumped, most ties missing, covers with light marginal stains.
Superb copy on japon paper of these tableaux of Parisian life during the Belle Époque, through the lens of Gervais Courtellemont, with commentary by Georges Montorgueil.
€350