ABBÉ PREVOST
Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
Javal et Bourdeaux|Paris 1927|24.50 x 29 cm|relié
L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, by the Abbé Prévost. First edition with these illustrations, comprising 15 watercolours by René Lelong, engraved on copper in wash and stipple by Jean-Antonin Delzers in the manner of the 18th century, and printed in colour by register.
One of 100 deluxe copies on blue-tinted Arches vellum, no. 122, for which the justification calls for an additional suite printed in a single colour; this suite is not present in the present copy.
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