Laurent

Famous illustrated edition with nearly 450 wood-engraved vignettes, 29 plates printed on China paper and 7 steel-engraved portraits after T. Johannot, Meissonnier, Iasbey, P. Huet.
Full cherry red morocco binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with a gilt cartouche embellished with gilt romantic arabesques, gilt roulettes on headcaps, one joint slightly cracked at head, frame of quadruple gilt and blind fillets on boards enriched at corners with gilt typographical motifs, central gilt bilobed cartouche enriched at angles with gilt romantic tools, gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns, white watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, double gilt fillets on edges, all edges gilt, some min

First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on Vidalon paper.
Half black morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed Laurent.
Handsome copy beautifully executed.
Work illustrated, as frontispiece, with an original lithograph by Edouard Vuillard representing the author.