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Léon CARRE

Victor BARRUCAND

Le chariot de terre cuite

Editions d'art H. Piazza, Paris 1921, 23x30,5cm, relié sous étui.

Edition decorated with 20 unpaged original colour illustrations by Léon Carré, one of the 135 numbered copies on Japan Imperial containing an inventory of all the illustrations on thin vellum, print after 25 Japan.
Full chocolate brown morocco binding, spine in four compartments set with floral motifs consisting of green, mauve and purple mosaic morocco pieces, blind roll tooling on the caps, frame of a beige mosaic morocco strip on the boards enriched with gilt dots in the corners and pieces of green, brown, purple and mauve mosaic morocco in a floral and leaf design, frame of seven gilt fillets and a chocolate brown mosaic morocco strip on the paste downs in full Havana morocco, watered silk endpapers embroidered with silver threads, following endpapers marbled, black fillets on the leading edges, covers and spines preserved, all edges gilt, slipcase edged in chocolate brown morocco, marbled paper boards, interior in chocolate brown paper, superb mosaic binding signed Marius Michel.
A very beautiful copy perfectly set in a full mosaic, lined morocco binding by Michel.
 

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