Léon Gruel

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Léon Gruel
  1. Le Horla
    Guy de MAUPASSANT

    Le Horla[The Horla]

    Paul Ollendorff|Paris 1887|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié

    First edition on ordinary paper.


    Contemporary binding in half red morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands framed with black fillets, gilt date on tail, marbled paper boards, bouquet-patterned endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved (small angular restoration to the foot of the first board), gilt head.

    Binding signed by Léon Gruel, one of the most renowned bookbinders of the late 19th century.


    Le Horla consists of thirteen short stories: Le Horla, Amour, Le Trou, Sauvée, Clochette, Le Marquis de Fumerol, Le Signe, Le Diable, Les Rois, Au bois, Une famille, Joseph, L'Auberge and Le Vagabond.


    Precious...

    €6,800
  2. Cyrano de Bergerac
    Edmond ROSTAND

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    Charpentier & Fasquelle|Paris 1898|13.50 x 19.50 cm|relié sous étui
    First edition, one of the rare leading copies on Japan paper limited to 50 numbered copies and a few name-specific copies, the tirage de tête.

    Binding in full green morocco, spine in five compartments set with gilt stippling and adorned with double gilt panels decorated with gilt fleurons intheir centres, recolouring and discreet restoration to a joint, gilt roll tooling on the spine ends, frame of double gilt fillets on the boards brightened in the corners with a set of interlacings and gilt fleurons, iridescent green silk endpapers, frame of five gilt fillets and gilt floral motifs in the corners of the pastedown endpapers, covers preserved...
    €25,000
  3. Recherches sur les imprimeurs et libraires d'Orléans. Recueil des documents pour servir à l'histoire de la typographie et de la librairie orléanaise, depuis le XIVe siècle à nos jours
    Henry HERLUISON

    Recherches sur les imprimeurs et libraires d'Orléans. Recueil des documents pour servir à l'histoire de la typographie et de la librairie orléanaise, depuis le XIVe siècle à nos jours

    H. Herluison|Paris 1868|16.50 x 25 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 78 copies hand-numbered by the publisher.
    Contemporary half brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt on deckled edges. Binding signed by Gruel.
    Some paper losses, joints rubbed and a few small stains on spine.
    Gruel bookplate pasted on first pastedown.
    €100
  4. Denise
    Alexandre DUMAS FILS

    Denise

    Calmann-Lévy|Paris 1885|16.50 x 25 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Holland paper.
    Half navy blue morocco shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt on deckled edges, binding signed Gruel.
    Handsome copy of this play in four acts.
    Provenance: From the library of Lafitte with pasted bookplate.
    €300
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