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Album of signatures created by Cecil Henland, 1908 issue bearing 36 signatures of leading figures from literature, cinema, music, the press and French theatre, each dated between 1908 and 1910.
Bound in red shagreen, flat spine with title gilt-stamped, vignette mounted on the upper cover, gilt edges, publisher’s binding.
Illustrated with a cover vignette with an ink signature of “The Ghost of a Celebrated General” (General Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts Associ
First edition.
3/4 red morocco, smooth spine elaborately decorated with gilt typographic motifs and green morocco onlays, crossed musketeer swords gilt-stamped at center of spine, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards framed in gilt, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine (slightly toned) preserved, top edge gilt, small restorations to corners and spine color restored.
Rare inscribed copy signed by Edmond Rostand: "A Monsieur Henry Fouquier avec ma reconnaissance la plus cordiale. Edmond Rostand."
First edition, one of 75 deluxe copies printed on papier impérial du japon, this copy no. 52 out of of 1,000 deluxe copies printed on various papers.
Contemporary full red morocco binding, spine with gilt and blind tooling, boards framed in gilt and blind, inner gilt dentelle, gilt top edge, moiré red silk endpapers. Original wrappers and spine preserved. Untrimmed copy with full margins. A 1 cm scratch to the spine. Minor rubbing to three raised bands.
A very handsome copy of this Don Juan play, where he meets the Devil after being granted a ten-year deferment. Don Juan has a last chance to offer true love to just one woman.
