Description
ZOLA (Émile). Une page d'amour preceded by a preface with drawings by Édouard Dantan. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1884. - 2 volumes in-8, 246 x 164: portrait, (2 ff.), IV, 261 pp., (1 f.), 5 plates, printed cover; (2 ff.), 287 pp. 5 plates, printed cover. Dark green morocco, mosaic floral garland in brick, olive and brown morocco framing the boards, ribbed spine decorated in the center with a mosaic flower in the same morocco, gilt fillet, gilt leaves and mosaic flowers framing the inside, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved (Ch. Meunier). New edition of the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, printed in an edition of 250 copies. Published in the Bibliothèque artistique moderne collection, it is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and 10 plates, etched by Albert Duvivier after drawings by Édouard Joseph DANTAN (1848-1897). A precious copy, one of 20 on Whatman paper (no. 33), including a suite of illustrations before the letter. It has been exceptionally enriched with the rare portrait of Zola engraved by Henri Toussaint after a photograph by Nadar, in three proofs on laid paper, signed by the engraver, as well as one of the 10 proof suites of the 11 plates in first state on japon, the first initialed by the engraver and justified "n° 1 sur dix". A very fine copy in a mosaic binding by Charles Meunier. Spines slightly faded. A few foxing marks, notably on the front cover of the second volume and on the japon prints.
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ZOLA (Émile). Une page d'amour preceded by a preface with drawings by Édouard Dantan. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1884. - 2 volumes in-8, 246 x 164: portrait, (2 ff.), IV, 261 pp., (1 f.), 5 plates, printed cover; (2 ff.), 287 pp. 5 plates, printed cover. Dark green morocco, mosaic floral garland in brick, olive and brown morocco framing the boards, ribbed spine decorated in the center with a mosaic flower in the same morocco, gilt fillet, gilt leaves and mosaic flowers framing the inside, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved (Ch. Meunier). New edition of the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, printed in an edition of 250 copies. Published in the Bibliothèque artistique moderne collection, it is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and 10 plates, etched by Albert Duvivier after drawings by Édouard Joseph DANTAN (1848-1897). A precious copy, one of 20 on Whatman paper (no. 33), including a suite of illustrations before the letter. It has been exceptionally enriched with the rare portrait of Zola engraved by Henri Toussaint after a photograph by Nadar, in three proofs on laid paper, signed by the engraver, as well as one of the 10 proof suites of the 11 plates in first state on japon, the first initialed by the engraver and justified "n° 1 sur dix". A very fine copy in a mosaic binding by Charles Meunier. Spines slightly faded. A few foxing marks, notably on the front cover of the second volume and on the japon prints.
