Alfred Farez

Charpentier, Paris 1885, 11,5x18,5cm, bound.

First edition. One of 150 numbered copies on hollande, the only deluxe issue after 10 on papier japon.
Half red morocco binding, gilt date on spine, marbled paper covers and endpapers. Original wrappers including the spine preserved. Set in an early 20th century binding signed by Alfred Farez.

Our copy includes a two-page autograph letter dated and signed by Émile Zola to Octave Mirbeau. The author thanks him for the benevolent article he recently wrote about Germinal, while defending himself from being considered as the leader of Naturalism: “But why do you say that I

Charles Baudelaire. Sa vie et son œuvre First edition on thick paper, of the first biography devoted to Charles Baudelaire, who had died two years prior.
Half navy morocco over marbled paper boards Bradel binding by Alfred Farez, the spine slightly faded, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved.
This copy complete with the 5 etching portraits of Charles Baudelaire by Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, Emile Deroy and Charles Baudelaire himself. Edouard Manet engraved the two of his, Félix Bracquemond the three others.

Autograph inscription signed by Charles As

First edition of the French translation established by Théodore de Wyzewa, for which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Bradel binding in half brown cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, date and double gilt fillet at foot, red shagreen title label with some scratches, marbled paper boards, bookplate pasted on a pastedown, contemporary binding signed Alfred Farez.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
Work illustrated with 8 engravings outside the text including a frontispiece.

First edition known as the "bibliophiles edition" limited to 60 copies, this one personalized and printed on China paper, dedicated and offered by the author: "à Jules Claretie affectueux souvenir de son tout dévoué André Theuriet" ["to Jules Claretie affectionate remembrance from his entirely devoted André Theuriet"].
Illustrated with a frontispiece, 26 plates hors texte and numerous vignettes in the text, engraved on wood by Bellenger after Léon Lhermitte, one of the great painters of rural life. Each plate - except the frontispiece - is protected by a captioned tissue guard.
Near-contemporary half morocco with corners binding, smooth spine with mosaic decoration

New edition, one of 12 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after 8 Japan paper.
Bradel binding in half burgundy morocco with corners, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, one scratch at head of joint, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, fragile parchment covers and spine preserved (spine sunned with small losses), binding signed Alfred Farez.
Handsome copy pleasingly bound.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies after 5 on Japan paper
Half black morocco Bradel binding by Alfred Farez (active from 1909 to 1930), gilt date at foot of spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers
A fine copy in a handsome binding.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Half cherry red shagreen with corners, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, marbled paper boards, one upper corner slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Alfred Farez.