UZANNE (Octave). L'EVENTAIL. Illustrations by Paul AVRIL. Paris, A. Quantin, imprimeur-éditeur, 1882. Large in-8, full mauve morocco, spine faded to fawn, titled throughout, boards decorated at corners with ornamented gilt irons, mauve endpapers, gilt head, binding by F. Dessalien, pages full-margin, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, very fine title page in chromolithography by P. Avril, [10] 144 [4] pp, first edition, title vignette, 63 illustrations in the text in green, brown, pink, blue, black, playing with the text, other pages ornamented, tiny rubbing to tail of spine, ex; well bound in good condition.

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