Sapho Moeurs Parisiennes

Edition illustrated by Auguste Leroux, one of 25 numbered copies on Grand Japon, containing four states of the illustrations including one state with some tints and a large original signed watercolor by Auguste Leroux, deluxe copy.
Work decorated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece etched by Decisy and 46 compositions drawn by Auguste Leroux and H. Bouché-Leclercq and colored with pochoir, including a title vignette (repeated on the half-title), 15 plates, 15 headpieces and 15 tailpieces). The different states of the illustrations have been bound at the end of the volume.
Full navy blue morocco binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with roulettes, stippling and a large octagonal antique-style tool stamped in gold repeated twice, large octagonal tool with floral motif at the center of the covers and pentagonal tool of the same inspiration at the corners, navy blue morocco decorated with stippling and gilt octagonal tools framing the pastedowns, marbled endpapers, covers and spine preserved, blind fillet on the leading edges, gauffered headcaps, top edge gilt over deckled edges. Contemporary binding signed by Kieffer.
Five leaves, including the back cover, have been cut at the upper corner certainly to allow better access to the duplicate leaves.
Fine copy.