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BALZAC (Honoré de). Eugénie Grandet. Paris: Motteroz for Les Amis des livres, 1883. - In-8, 243 x 157: 345 pp, (6 ff. last blank), 8 plates, printed cover. Red morocco, double framing of seven gilt fillets on the boards, ribbed spine decorated in the same spirit, dark green morocco lining decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, dark green moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (Mercier sr de Cuzin). Illustrated first edition, with 8 out-of-text compositions by Pascal Adolphe Jean DAGNAN-BOUVERET (1852-1929), a renowned painter and pupil of Gérôme and Corot, etched by M. Le Rat. Limited edition of only 120 copies on wove paper. This one, numbered 69, is one of 100 nominative copies, specially printed for M. Albert Pascal. It contains two states of the etchings: pure etching and final state on chine appliqué. A precious copy in Mercier's lined binding, produced for Arthur Meyer (1844-1924), founder and director of Le Gaulois, who became an eminent bibliophile, keen to fill his library copies with autographs and original drawings. This one has been stuffed with these three precious items: - ORIGINAL DRAWING BY DAGNAN-BOUVERET (203 x 135), in pencil with white highlights, on blue paper pasted on wove paper, depicting Eugénie Grandet after reading her cousin's letter, dedicated "to Monsieur Arthur Meyer" and signed by the artist. - AUTOGRAPHIC LETTER SIGNED BY HONORÉ DE BALZAC, 1 page 3/4 in-8, undated, addressed to journalist Louis Desnoyers (1802-1868), founder of the Société des gens de lettres: "Mon cher Desnoyers, quant à des fautes de français qui échappent à nous tous en général et qui m'échappent énormément souvent à moi en particulier, car plus on écrit plus on a chance pour en faire, il ne peut y avoir de doute sur la nécessité où vous êtes de les enlever. That's what protes do, and I don't want to assimilate your august functions to the humbler ones of the prote..." - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY VICTOR HUGO TO HONORÉ DE BALZAC, 2 pages in-12, Friday March 6: "You don't need me. - who knows and who says things better than you? what can I add to a thought like yours?" A very fine copy. Provenance: Albert Pascal. - Arthur Meyer, with bookplate and his mark at the bottom of the spine (sale 1924, no. 166).
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BALZAC (Honoré de). Eugénie Grandet. Paris: Motteroz for Les Amis des livres, 1883. - In-8, 243 x 157: 345 pp, (6 ff. last blank), 8 plates, printed cover. Red morocco, double framing of seven gilt fillets on the boards, ribbed spine decorated in the same spirit, dark green morocco lining decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, dark green moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (Mercier sr de Cuzin). Illustrated first edition, with 8 out-of-text compositions by Pascal Adolphe Jean DAGNAN-BOUVERET (1852-1929), a renowned painter and pupil of Gérôme and Corot, etched by M. Le Rat. Limited edition of only 120 copies on wove paper. This one, numbered 69, is one of 100 nominative copies, specially printed for M. Albert Pascal. It contains two states of the etchings: pure etching and final state on chine appliqué. A precious copy in Mercier's lined binding, produced for Arthur Meyer (1844-1924), founder and director of Le Gaulois, who became an eminent bibliophile, keen to fill his library copies with autographs and original drawings. This one has been stuffed with these three precious items: - ORIGINAL DRAWING BY DAGNAN-BOUVERET (203 x 135), in pencil with white highlights, on blue paper pasted on wove paper, depicting Eugénie Grandet after reading her cousin's letter, dedicated "to Monsieur Arthur Meyer" and signed by the artist. - AUTOGRAPHIC LETTER SIGNED BY HONORÉ DE BALZAC, 1 page 3/4 in-8, undated, addressed to journalist Louis Desnoyers (1802-1868), founder of the Société des gens de lettres: "Mon cher Desnoyers, quant à des fautes de français qui échappent à nous tous en général et qui m'échappent énormément souvent à moi en particulier, car plus on écrit plus on a chance pour en faire, il ne peut y avoir de doute sur la nécessité où vous êtes de les enlever. That's what protes do, and I don't want to assimilate your august functions to the humbler ones of the prote..." - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY VICTOR HUGO TO HONORÉ DE BALZAC, 2 pages in-12, Friday March 6: "You don't need me. - who knows and who says things better than you? what can I add to a thought like yours?" A very fine copy. Provenance: Albert Pascal. - Arthur Meyer, with bookplate and his mark at the bottom of the spine (sale 1924, no. 166).
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