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L'Aiglon. Drama in six acts, in verse. First performed at…

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ROSTAND (Edmond). L'Aiglon. Drama in six acts, in verse. First performed at Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, March 15, 1900. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900. - In-8, 211 x 140: (6 ff. first blank), 262 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Dark blue jansenist morocco, ribbed spine, interior gilt filleting, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (H. Blanchetière). First edition of Rostand's second masterpiece, after Cyrano de Bergerac, illustrated with a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as L'Aiglon by Louise Abbéma. One of 180 numbered copies on Japon paper, complete with the beautiful cover illustrated by René Lalique. It is enriched with a portrait of the author engraved by Desmoulins as a proof on Hollande, as well as two prospectuses also on Japon, the first for the subscription of this portrait and the second for John Grand-Carteret's work entitled L'Aiglon en images et dans la fiction poétique et dramatique. Minor rubbing to one spine. Provenance: Juan Hernandez, with bookplate.

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ROSTAND (Edmond). L'Aiglon. Drama in six acts, in verse. First performed at Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, March 15, 1900. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900. - In-8, 211 x 140: (6 ff. first blank), 262 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Dark blue jansenist morocco, ribbed spine, interior gilt filleting, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (H. Blanchetière). First edition of Rostand's second masterpiece, after Cyrano de Bergerac, illustrated with a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as L'Aiglon by Louise Abbéma. One of 180 numbered copies on Japon paper, complete with the beautiful cover illustrated by René Lalique. It is enriched with a portrait of the author engraved by Desmoulins as a proof on Hollande, as well as two prospectuses also on Japon, the first for the subscription of this portrait and the second for John Grand-Carteret's work entitled L'Aiglon en images et dans la fiction poétique et dramatique. Minor rubbing to one spine. Provenance: Juan Hernandez, with bookplate.

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