Xavier de MAISTRE, Julien LE BLANT
Les prisonniers du Caucase
A. Ferroud|Paris 1897|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
Edition printed with 500 copies, ours is one of the few copies on Japan containing three stages of the engravings, the “tirage de tête”. Preface by Léo Claretie.
Work illustrated with 9 compositions by Julien Le Blant engraved by etching by Louis Muller.
Our copy includes the label of the publisher Lucien Durvand at the justification, with the words “reliure unique” “unique binding”.
Art Deco binding in full black morocco, spine in five compartments decorated with honeysuckle flowers inlaid with brown morocco whose stems are intertwined in panels, place and date at the foot, boards richly decorated with a blind tooling stamped fillet framing a significant interlacing of honeys
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