Null [Charles COUSIN ]- Voyage dans un grenier. Bouquins, faïences, autographes …
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[Charles COUSIN ]- Voyage dans un grenier. Bouquins, faïences, autographes et bibelots. Paris, Damascène Morgand & Charles Fatout, 1878. Large in-8, [4]-270-[2] pp. 21 plates hors texte. Slight discharges from color h-t. Later navy blue half-basane, spine ribbed, gilt title on spine, cover and spine preserved. First edition of this tour of Charles Cousin's collections, illustrated with 21 plates (etchings, photogravures, chromos), including 10 color plates of bindings, ceramics, etc., and a full-length portrait of Charles Baudelaire after a self-portrait offered to the author. Limited edition of 620 copies. One of 500 on Hollande laid paper. Enriched copy with an autograph letter signed to Charles Ruelens (Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, 1820 - Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, 1890), a scholar who held an important position at the Royal Library. 4 p. in-8 on "Grenier" letterhead (20 rue de Dunkerque). "Monsieur, Mon gros bouquin ne vaut pas vos plaquettes et mon grenier va me paraître très prosaïque, au sortir du caveau de la Gens Cornelia..."

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[Charles COUSIN ]- Voyage dans un grenier. Bouquins, faïences, autographes et bibelots. Paris, Damascène Morgand & Charles Fatout, 1878. Large in-8, [4]-270-[2] pp. 21 plates hors texte. Slight discharges from color h-t. Later navy blue half-basane, spine ribbed, gilt title on spine, cover and spine preserved. First edition of this tour of Charles Cousin's collections, illustrated with 21 plates (etchings, photogravures, chromos), including 10 color plates of bindings, ceramics, etc., and a full-length portrait of Charles Baudelaire after a self-portrait offered to the author. Limited edition of 620 copies. One of 500 on Hollande laid paper. Enriched copy with an autograph letter signed to Charles Ruelens (Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, 1820 - Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, 1890), a scholar who held an important position at the Royal Library. 4 p. in-8 on "Grenier" letterhead (20 rue de Dunkerque). "Monsieur, Mon gros bouquin ne vaut pas vos plaquettes et mon grenier va me paraître très prosaïque, au sortir du caveau de la Gens Cornelia..."

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