Jean de TINAN

New edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Imperial Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Work illustrated with a photographic portrait of Jean de Tinan as frontispiece.
Fine copy.

Le Centaure, complete collection
Le Centaure | Paris 1896 | 19 x 24.5 cm | 2 bound volumes
First edition of the complete collection of this luxurious magazine founded by André Gide,Pierre Louys and Paul Valéry, copy numbered by hand offered to the publisher Henri Floury.
Publisher’s binding in full green cloth, gilt titles and volume numbering on the first boards of the bindings, first cover boards and publisher’s catalogues preserved.

First edition on ordinary paper.
A nice copy.

First edition, one of the copies of the first issue.
Binding half percaline mustard, back smoothes decorated with gilded nets double head and tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats mustard paper, soiled wrappers preserved and bound in (a clumsy restoration on the back of the first flat with a adhesive patch), corners bumped, damaged lower corner, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph of John Maurice Magre to Tinan.
Some little foxing.

Definitive edition, one of 800 numbered copies on laid paper, the only printing with 200 other deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with ten woodcuts drawn and engraved by Picart le Doux.
Minor worming affecting the first cover, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition, one of 740 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only printing with 50 Japan paper copies.
Work illustrated with wood engravings by P.A. Moras.
Handsome copy.