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First edition.
Half olive shagreen binding, spine faded, gilt date at foot, upper headcap rubbed, marbled paper boards marginally darkened, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis Ernest Jules Denormandie to President C. Mollet.
Handsome interior condition.

Edition limited to 250 copies, ours being one of the numbered copies on Holland paper (no. 6, printed for the library of M. Cros-Bonnel).
Slipcase rubbed in full brown percaline, gilt title and author's name stamped in blind on spine, decoration in the same style on front cover.
Our edition features 23 plates hors-texte sometimes in colors including several proofs before letters of the headpieces.
Some foxing and binding slightly detached.