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GOURMONT (Remy de) - LABOUREUR (Jean-Émile). A virginal heart. Roman. Paris : Les Cent bibliophiles, 1937. - In-8, 256 x 181 : (6 ff.), 196 pp. (4 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Dark blue morocco, boards decorated in the centre with two mosaic roses in old rose and beige morocco, with brown morocco stem and green morocco leaves, spine ribbed, dark blue morocco framed inside, decorated with a gilt fillet, blue moiré silk lining and endpapers, double guards, edges gilt on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, spine folder and dark blue chagrin overlay bands, case (S. Andrieux). Sylvain Laboureur, Catalogue complet de l'œuvre de Jean-Émile Laboureur, II, pp. 266-271, n° 524. 120 numbered copies on vellum paper from the papeteries de Rives (n° 115), illustrated with 34 beautiful etchings in colours by Jean-Émile LABOUREUR (1877-1943) Beautiful copy in a mosaic binding, made in the 1950s by Serge Andrieux. Damaged slipcase.
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GOURMONT (Remy de) - LABOUREUR (Jean-Émile). A virginal heart. Roman. Paris : Les Cent bibliophiles, 1937. - In-8, 256 x 181 : (6 ff.), 196 pp. (4 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Dark blue morocco, boards decorated in the centre with two mosaic roses in old rose and beige morocco, with brown morocco stem and green morocco leaves, spine ribbed, dark blue morocco framed inside, decorated with a gilt fillet, blue moiré silk lining and endpapers, double guards, edges gilt on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, spine folder and dark blue chagrin overlay bands, case (S. Andrieux). Sylvain Laboureur, Catalogue complet de l'œuvre de Jean-Émile Laboureur, II, pp. 266-271, n° 524. 120 numbered copies on vellum paper from the papeteries de Rives (n° 115), illustrated with 34 beautiful etchings in colours by Jean-Émile LABOUREUR (1877-1943) Beautiful copy in a mosaic binding, made in the 1950s by Serge Andrieux. Damaged slipcase.
