Octave UZANNE, Félicien ROPS
Son altesse la femme
Her Highness Woman
A. Quantin|Paris 1885|20.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
Son altesse la femme [Her Highness Woman]
Binding in full grey morocco, the spine in five compartments lightly sunned, date and place on the foot, gilt fillets on the spine head, endpages and pastedowns in cloth with a floral pattern, framed on the pastedown pages listel of grey morocco with gilt typographic pattern, next endpages and pastedowns in marble paper, wrappers and spine preserved, gilt edges, double golden fillets on the head band, superb contemporary binding by Bretault. Some small light foxing.
Illustrated with 11 aquaforte plates in color by Rops, Moreau, Lynch, Gonzales, Kratké, Gervex. Our copy in the Japanese manner is complete with printed engravings on Japan paper in a double state.
A very beautiful copy, perfectly bound.
A. Quantin, Paris 1885, 20,5 x 28,5 cm, full grey morocco
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.Binding in full grey morocco, the spine in five compartments lightly sunned, date and place on the foot, gilt fillets on the spine head, endpages and pastedowns in cloth with a floral pattern, framed on the pastedown pages listel of grey morocco with gilt typographic pattern, next endpages and pastedowns in marble paper, wrappers and spine preserved, gilt edges, double golden fillets on the head band, superb contemporary binding by Bretault. Some small light foxing.
Illustrated with 11 aquaforte plates in color by Rops, Moreau, Lynch, Gonzales, Kratké, Gervex. Our copy in the Japanese manner is complete with printed engravings on Japan paper in a double state.
A very beautiful copy, perfectly bound.
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