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Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN
Exposition d'ouvrages peints dessinés ou gravés par Th.-A. Steinlen
Editions d'art Edouard Pelletan|Paris 1903|14.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition of this exhibition catalogue held at 32, place Saint Georges in November–December 1903.
Bound in contemporary chocolate brown morocco-backed marbled boards, spine plain, corners in matching morocco, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge, original wrappers and spine preserved; signed binding by Lortic.
Pasted on the rear pastedown is the invitation card to the exhibition, illustrated by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen.
Preface by Anatole France.
A handsome copy finely bound by Lortic, son of Charles Baudelaire’s bookbinder.
€350
Joseph-Marius AVY, Marcel PRÉVOST
Les demi-vierges
A. Romagnol|Paris 1909|21 x 31 cm|relié
Illustrated edition with 38 original compositions etched in black and sanguine, in and out of text, by Joseph-Marius Avy, one of 190 numbered copies on handmade laid paper, the only issue after 110 Japan.
Full chocolate brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, one band rubbed and slight scratches to spine, gilt roulettes to headcaps, caramel watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, three caramel and chocolate brown morocco fillets framing the pastedowns, following endpapers of handmade laid paper, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, double gilt fillets on edges with small nicks, elegant contemporary binding signed by Marcellin Lortic.
White endpapers of the...
€300
Prosper MÉRIMÉE
Lettres à Requien. - Lettres inédites à Sutton Sharpe - In La revue de Paris N°10 de la 5ème année & In Le Mercure de France N°318 de la 21ème année[Letters to Requien – Unpublished Letters to Sutton Sharpe – In La Revue de Paris, No. 10 (5th Year) & In Mercure de France, No. 318 (21st Year)]
La Revue de Paris|Paris 1898 &1910|16.50 x 25 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition for each volume.
Full brown morocco bindings, smooth spines double framed in gilt, headpieces lined in gilt, boards elaborately framed in gilt, beige morocco pastedowns framed in gilt, brown moiré silk free endpapers, following free endpapers in mould made paper, all edges gilt, original soft covers preserved, superb contemporary bindings signed by M. Lortic.
The first volume contains two original ink drawings by Prosper Mérimée: the first, captioned and signed in the lower right corner depicting the Duke of Brunswick, the second a tree and a wooded landscape with a handwritten inscription in Russian "Grâce à Dieu" and "Gloire à Dieu, gloire à...
€3,800
Théodore de BANVILLE
Diane au bois. Comédie héroïque en 2 actes en vers
Carteret (ancienne librairie Conquet)|Paris 1911|21 x 29.80 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with 14 lithographic compositions by Maurice Eliot.
Copy printed for M. E. Terré. Text within a border frame. Grand Velin.
Half chocolate morocco with corners signed Lortic. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Some pale foxing at beginning of work. Minor rubbing. Handsome copy.
€400
Alphonse DAUDET, FABRES [Antonio Maria FABRES Y COSTA]
La Fédor
Flammarion|Paris s. d. [1897]|13 x 19.50 cm|relié
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Emile ADAN, Gustave FLAUBERT
Un coeur simple
A. Ferroud|Paris 1894|16 x 25 cm|relié sous étui
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First and most acclaimed collected edition of Molière's works, bound by M. Lortic
First and most acclaimed collected edition of Molière's works, bound by M. Lortic
MOLIÈRE
Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Molière [The Works of Monsieur de Molière]
Chez Denys Thierry • Claude Barbin • Pierre Trabouillet|à Paris 1682|9 x 16.50 cm|8 volumes reliés
First complete collected edition and first illustrated edition. The first edition of Dom Garcie de Navarre, L’Impromptu de Versailles, Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre, Les Amans magnifiques, and La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas. With thirty copper engraved illustrations by Jean Sauvé after Pierre Brassart, 9 of them included in the pagination.19th-century red full morocco binding, spines with five raised bands, date gilt at foot, double gilt fillets to edges of covers and spine-ends, large inner gilt dentelle, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Bindings...
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