[DEGAS (Edgar)] - MAUPASSANT (Guy de). La Maison Tellier. Paris : Ambroise Vollard, 1934. - In-4, 325 x 254 : (4 ff. first two blanks), 64 pp, (8 ff. last blank), 19 plates, illustrated cover. In leaves, filled cover, later folder and slipcase. Beautiful edition illustrated with 17 woodcuts by Georges Aubert, including two full-page ones, and 19 copper-engraved plates by Maurice Potin, including two in colour on japon paper and 17 in black on wove paper, after compositions by Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Edition strictly limited to 325 copies on Rives wove paper; one of 305 numbered in Arabic numerals (n° 217). A very well preserved copy.

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