La Française du siècle. Modes. – Mœurs. – Usages [The Frenchwoman of the Century]
A. Quantin, Paris 1886, 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.
Full grey morocco, the spine in five compartments, spine lightly sunned, date and place gildt on foot, gilt fillets on the spine head, endpapers and pastedowns in cloth with a floral pattern, framed on the endpages by a listel of grey morocco enhanced with gilt typographic pattern, the following pages in marbled paper, wrappers and spine preserved, gilt edges, double gilt fillets on the head band, a superb contemporary