Dodé

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after 10 on China paper.
Bradel binding in full red cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, gilt date at foot, black shagreen title label, double gilt fillet frame on boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
Work illustrated with a drawing by G. Rochegrosse as frontispiece printed on China paper.

first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on paper of the Netherlands.
Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh frame compositions painted boards and boards to centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta dabbling in a bathtub on the second, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw.
Book adorned the author of illustrations.
Provenance: Library of Frederick Lachèvre, bibliographer, specialist in French poetry, with its large bookplate engraved and painted emblem repeated in the first boardes. A book illustration is reproduced on the lower flat of each volume.
Some light and light bites to bookbinding.

first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh coaching boards and boards painted in watercolor compositions centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta embodying Christ crucified, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw.
In addition, this copy is enriched with a handwritten correction Nadar pencil in The Passion, p. 45, to orveitan [sic].
Book adorned the author of illustrations.
Provenance: Library of Frederick Lachèvre, bibliographer, specialist in French poetry, with its large bookplate engraved and painted emblem repeated in the first boardes. A book illustration is reproduced on the lower flat of each volume.
Some light and light bites to bookbinding.