First Editions

First edition printed in 150 numbered copies on vellum.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth spine with rubbing, lower headcap rubbed, boards marginally soiled, lower corners slightly bumped, top edge gilt.
Handsome interior condition despite a clear dampstain at head of the final leaves.
Introduction by Mrs Meynell.
Complete with its 62 plates outside the text under tissue guards reproducing works by John Singer Sargent.

First edition.
Publisher's full black cloth binding, smooth spine, handsome condition complete with illustrated dust jacket.
Rich iconography.
Text by Manthia Diawara.
Signed autograph inscription from David Rosenthal to a man named Jean.

First edition published in 20 instalments, illustrated with wood-engraved vignettes in the text after Célestin Nanteuil, Français, Karl Girardet, Jules David, etc., and 20 copper-engraved or lithographed plates after Diaz, Decamps, Hazé, A. Guignet, E. Hedouin, Théodore Chasseriau, Alophe, Couture, etc. The original covers of all instalments are bound at the end. The covers erroneously announce 30 engravings instead of the 20 actually included.
Later binding in red Russian half morocco with corners, spine in five raised bands richly gilt, date in gilt at foot, gilt fillet frame on pasteboard covers. Considerable rubbing and bumped corners.
Provenance: from the library of Victor Mercier, with his Art Nouveau bookplate engraved by Adolphe Giraldon.