Fort comme la mort

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after 5 Japan.
Half-title and final endpaper pages entirely sunned, handsome copy.
Jansenist binding in full chocolate brown morocco, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets and decorated with six black compartments, septuple black fillet frame on covers, tawny watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, quadruple gilt fillet frame on pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, all edges gilt, elegant binding signed Gruel.
Handsome copy perfectly executed.