Poë (Edgar).
Twenty extraordinary stories. Translated by Charles Baudelaire. Paris, Le Livre de Plantin, 1927. In-4, in sheets, cover, folder and case of the publisher. Edition illustrated with 41 original etchings by Alméry Lobel-Riche, including a portrait-frontispiece, 20 out-of-text compositions and 20 large historiated lettrines.
Edition at 197 numbered copies, this one of the 25 first copies on old japon, after a unique copy on the same paper, including, besides the finished state of the engravings:
- 3 suites of the hors-texts: the pure etching, the state in black with remarks and the state in colour with remarks,
- a suite of the lettering with remarks,
- a proof of the frontispiece with remarks,
- an original drawing by Lobel-Riche,
- one original copperplate engraving.
This copy contains in addition, 2 other original drawings, a bistre suite of engravings and lettering and the black suite is signed here.
Carteret Illustrés IV, 320 - Monod, n°9188 - Mahé, 138-139.
