147 - REYBAUD (Louis). Jérôme Paturot in Search of the Best of Republics. Illustrated edition by Tony Johannot. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1849. Large 8vo, full binding in purple shagreen, spine and covers adorned with gilt plates made with special dies, internal perforation, lining and endpapers in white moiré paper, gilt edges (Publisher’s binding).

REYBAUD (Louis). Jérôme Paturot in Search of the Best of Republics. Illustrated edition by Tony Johannot. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1849. Large 8vo, full binding in purple shagreen, spine and covers adorned with gilt plates made with special dies, internal perforation, lining and endpapers in white moiré paper, gilt edges (Publisher’s binding). First printing. Illustrated with 30 full-page plates and approximately 160 vignettes in the text, woodcuts based on designs by Tony Johannot. The full-page plates are protected here by white silk paper strips. A very fine copy in its romantic, full-leather, decorated binding, from the libraries of Montcalm (bookplate) and Henri Beraldi (bookplate, 3rd auction, no. 410, spine reproduced).