La pupille du vieux garçon
Small tears repaired to spine with very slight lack at head, some foxing, tear with lack to final endpaper not touching text.
Rare.
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first edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Binding in half red morocco with corners, back with five nerves set with golden dots and double richly decorated gilded boxes, date golden tail, slight traces of friction on the joints, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper , preserved covers, golden head.
Our copy is enriched, frontispiece, a portrait of the author on China engraved by Paul-Adolphe Rajon (1843-1888).
Nice copy.
First edition, of which there were no large paper copies.
Contemporary half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
A little spotting.
A rare copy in its contemporary binding.