Maurice LELOIR, [Diego HURTADO DE MENDOZA attributed]
Vie de Lazarille de Tormès
H. Launette & Cie|Paris 1886|18.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
Illustrated edition with 10 etchings as well as about a hundred vignettes by Maurice Leloir, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper.
Full navy blue morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with triple gilt compartments embellished with floral motifs stamped in blind, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frames of quintuple gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, boards also decorated with a floral frieze stamped in blind, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of gilt dentelle on pastedowns, double gilt fillets on leading edges, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, superb binding signed Chambolle-Duru.
Our copy contains a triple state of the etchings (a separate suite of in-text vignettes on Japan paper having been bound at the end) as well as an original wash drawing signed by Maurice Leloir as stipulated in the justification page.
Very handsome copy expanded with an original drawing and perfectly executed by Chambolle-Duru.
€3,000