Jacques AMYOT, Alexandre DUMAS
Daphnis et Chloé
Louys Glady|Londres [London] 1878|11.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
Edition printed in 333 copies, ours one of 25 copies on China paper.
Contemporary full purple morocco binding, spine with five raised bands - uniformly sunned and showing rubbing at head and foot - decorated with blind fillets continuing onto the boards, framed by a blind fillet, and ending with floral motifs, parchment wrappers preserved. Binding signed C. & C. Mc Leish.
The publisher indicates in his preface: "[This edition] is distinguished by a typographical attraction that no other book possesses. This attraction, as original as it is unexpected, is the separate printing of punctuation, hyphens and apostrophes!"
Contemporary full purple morocco binding, spine with five raised bands - uniformly sunned and showing rubbing at head and foot - decorated with blind fillets continuing onto the boards, framed by a blind fillet, and ending with floral motifs, parchment wrappers preserved. Binding signed C. & C. Mc Leish.
The publisher indicates in his preface: "[This edition] is distinguished by a typographical attraction that no other book possesses. This attraction, as original as it is unexpected, is the separate printing of punctuation, hyphens and apostrophes!"
€200