Le Sphinx des glaces

Illustrated edition comprising 68 illustrations by George Roux, including 20 large plates in chromotypography and a map.
Y catalogue at rear.
Publisher’s binding by Hetzel signed Engel, known as “au globe”, type 4, spine with lighthouse motif, lower cover type Engel “i” as per Jauzac, all edges gilt.
Headcaps slightly pushed and frayed, some foxing, offsetting from adhesive paper to the head and tail of the blue endpapers.
Le Sphinx des glaces is a fantastical novel intended as a sequel to Edgar Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, to which it is dedicated.
Copy not recorded by Jauzac.