GOUDEAU (Emile). Parisienne idylle. Paris, Printed for Charles Meunier, 1903. In-8, bradel grey-blue shagreened calf, first plate decorated with a composition featuring a cat making a round back mosaic in white and three swallows twirling in the sky gilded in the upper corner, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed, cover, case (Publisher's binding). First edition, illustrated by Pierre Vidal with a woodcut frontispiece, 33 drawings in the text and a cover. Edition at 90 copies, this one ONE OF 70 ON CHINESE containing a separate suite on japon pelure of all the woodcuts. A 4-page prospectus, printed on chine, bound at the end. Charming binding in seeded calf by Charles Meunier. Darkened spine.

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