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First separate edition illustrated with 13 color engravings by Charles Léandre engraved by Decisy including a frontispiece, a title vignette and 11 in-text compositions. Copy enhanced with one of the ten suites in black of all the engravings and a facsimile drawing. Limited edition of 125 copies on vellum d'Arches. One of the copies reserved for honorary members 101 to 106, No. 95 for Louis Meley. Covers and spine preserved. Volume published under the direction of Baroness de Berckeim.
Full wine-red long-grain morocco binding signed Noulhac (at bottom of front pastedown). Spine with 4 raised bands richly decorated with mirror tooling and roll tools on the bands. Boards decorated with a

Edition illustrated with 52 original etchings by Gaston La Touche, including 25 colored headpieces and 27 printed in green including a frontispiece, a title vignette and 25 tailpieces.
The work is printed in 100 numbered copies on Arches vellum, ours one of the few copies reserved for collaborators whose name has been properly erased.
Bradel binding in full glazed green marbled calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt typographical motifs, gilt tooling on headcaps, covers with double gilt fillet border and fleurons at corners, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré silk, following endpapers of marbled paper, covers and spine preserved, gilt fillets on edges, all edges gilt, slipcase borde

Edition printed in 150 numbered and named copies on vellum and illustrated with 28 original etchings hors texte as well as woodcuts by Raphaël Drouart.
Both slipcases are damaged and show either a lack to the upper edge, or a large tear to the upper edge.
Both chemises are fragile.
Handsome copy.
Our copy is exceptionally expanded with two original copperplates and a suite in black of the illustrations.
The text is illustrated with decorations and frames of gilt and black head-pieces in Art Deco style.

Edition printed on the presses of Jean-Gabriel Daragnès in 150 numbered copies on Lana laid paper.
Work illustrated with a portrait of Cardinal Richelieu as frontispiece, a title vignette, headpieces and tailpieces by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès.
First cover partially and slightly shaded without consequence, a paper lack at foot of slipcase.
Rare and handsome copy.