Félix Elie RÉGAMEY

First edition, one of 330 numbered copies on imitation Holland paper.
Work decorated with original illustrations by the author.
Front cover soiled, discreet printed bookseller's stamp on verso of front cover, some foxing.

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some tears on the leading edges, top edge gilt.
One fragile joint, a trace of discoloration in the margin of the first cover, boards marginally browned, some light foxing to interior.
Numerous contributions including those of Alphonse Daudet, Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, Anatole France, Eugène Vermersch, Léon Cladel, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Arène, Paul Nadar, François Coppée, Maurice Rollinat, Jules Troubat, André Gill, Théodore de Banville, Albert Glatigny, Sully-Prudhomme ...
The first issue is illustrated with a frontispiece by Félix...

First edition, one of the copies on Japon.
Texts by Jules Renard, Anatole France, Sully-Prudhomme, Gustave Geffroy, Louis Tynaire, Gabriel Séailles, René Binet, Georges Renard...
Lithographed or wood-engraved illustrations in red and black by Eugène Carrière, Félix Régamey, Carlos Schwabe, Georges Rochegrosse, Alfred Lenoir, Auguste and Georges Leroux, Daniel Vierge, Charles Fouqueray, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Lucien Vogel, Charles Léandre, Henri Fantin-Latour, Eugène Grasset, Alexandre Lunois, Georges Scott...
Bradel binding in full paper, palladium title on smooth spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge palladium.
Handsome copy...

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, head print after 10 China and 12 Japan.
Book decorated with original illustrations by the author.
Our copy, as stipulated in the justification of the print, is very complete with the double state of the frontispiece.
Rare and pleasant copy at all margins.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the tirage de tête after 10 Chine and 12 Japon.
Original illustrations by the author.
This copy, as called for by the justification page, retains the double state of the frontispiece.
Rare and nice copy with edges preserved.

Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui - An almost complete collection from n°1 to n°416
Léon Vanier, Paris n.d. (1878-1898), 19.5 x 28.5 cm, 8 bound volumes
The first edition of this rare collection, almost complete and comprising 416 issues of four pages, each illustrated with a color caricature and sometimes illustrations to text. A ninth volume appeared in 1899.
Contemporary half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, titles and volume numbers in gold, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, title page preserved in each volume.
Spines uniformly faded, a little spotting and occasional browning. No. 136 slightly shaved by binder and first page of No. 74...