OK'SAI

First edition.
Contemporary half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments with double blindruled compartments, gilt fleurons at their centre, gilt date to foot of spine, one joint slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, lower corners bumped.
With drawings hors texte and to text by Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Prosper Mérimée, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Ok'Sai, Grandville, and so on.
A little spotting principally affecting first few leaves.
Retaining its rare bande annonce (advertising strip) and a portrait of Champfleury tipped in.

First edition, second edition statement.
Bound in red half roan, smooth spine tooled with blind fillets, as part of red morocco boards of red cardboard, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, mottled head, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Champfleury to Aglaüs Bouvenne.
Book illustrated in drawings and Inserts Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Prosper Mérimée, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Ok'Sai, Grandville ...
Rare spots without gravity.
Provenance: Library of Aglaüs Bouvenne with his bookplate pasted on a contreplat.