[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - PORTO-RICHE, Georges de.

Missed happiness. Carnet d'un amoureux. Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1889. In-16 [137 x 89] of (2) ff., 75 pp. chocolate calf, boards decorated with a thin vertical line lamée of gold and silver, large on the first board and short on the second, smooth spine, quintuple gilt fillet inside, painted linings and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine kept (Louise-Denise Germain). First edition. Signed autograph letter: To Jules Lemaître // affectionate memory // G de P orto-Riche // 10 June 89 Beautiful and sober binding. "One could not do more Jansenist than this vertical line of gold and silver staples, of which L.-D. Germain offers several variants in his work: broken or stepped lines, more or less elaborate" (Fabienne Le Bars). Provenance: Jules Lemaître, with consignment (cat. 1917, nº 1558: then paperback) - Jacques Dennery, with bookplate. Exhibition : Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 2017, n° 57.