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LEBÈGUE (Léon) & STRAPAROLE. The Facetious Nights of Straparole. Translation by Jean Louveau. Paris, Charles Carrington, 1907. 2 vols. in-8 half black morocco with corners, smooth spine decorated with a mosaic of reeds and fleurons, title and tomaison gilt, date in tail, gilt fillet, gilt head, covers preserved (David). Ex-libris Dr R. Ravaud and BG / LG. Illustrations outside the text by L. Lebègue. Edition at 800 copies; n°5 of the 50 on japon impérial (first paper), with the suite of the fifty illustrations in colors & a suite of the same ones printed in black & red on Japon, accompanied by an ORIGINAL DRAWING (one of the fifty used for the illustration, watercolored by the artist) signed. Nice copy.
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LEBÈGUE (Léon) & STRAPAROLE. The Facetious Nights of Straparole. Translation by Jean Louveau. Paris, Charles Carrington, 1907. 2 vols. in-8 half black morocco with corners, smooth spine decorated with a mosaic of reeds and fleurons, title and tomaison gilt, date in tail, gilt fillet, gilt head, covers preserved (David). Ex-libris Dr R. Ravaud and BG / LG. Illustrations outside the text by L. Lebègue. Edition at 800 copies; n°5 of the 50 on japon impérial (first paper), with the suite of the fifty illustrations in colors & a suite of the same ones printed in black & red on Japon, accompanied by an ORIGINAL DRAWING (one of the fifty used for the illustration, watercolored by the artist) signed. Nice copy.
