Barabbas

first edition on the current paper.
Binding half brown shagreen with corners, back with four nerves decorated with a caramel morocco mosaic piece depicting a stylized owl, small traces of rubbing on the back, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, Contemporary binding.
Signed autograph of Lucien Descaves Charles Léger: "Do not you think, Charles Léger, dear colleague and friend, Gustave Courbet had well illustrated this book if it had appeared during his lifetime ...?"
Book decorated with illustrations of Steinlen.