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652 - FRANCE, Anatole *The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard*, member of the Institut. Paris: L. Carteret, 1921. In-8°. Bottle-green morocco leather signed “Weckesser et fils,” with multiple gold fillets framing the covers, spined, gold-embossed, with guilloché edges; beige morocco linings adorned with a large gilded and mosaic Art Nouveau design; flamed paper endpapers; double pebbled paper endpapers; gilded edges on small tabs; ornamented cover in good condition (spine burnished with some minor scuffing). In a bordered slipcase (leather slightly burnished). First illustrated edition comprising 20 compositions by Edmond Malassis etched by Léon Boisson: 14 frontispieces, including 1 frontispiece in color, 2 section titles, and 11 plates in black; 1 cover vignette and 1 title vignette, 6 headbands, and 6 tailpieces. Printed in a run of 400 numbered copies; one of the first 100 on Japanese paper (no. 75), enhanced with one of the 100 sets of pre-letter engravings with a note, on Japanese paper (special cover, preserved). Very attractive mosaic floral decoration on the endpapers. Ref. Carteret IV:167. - Monod 4881.
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FRANCE, Anatole *The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard*, member of the Institut. Paris: L. Carteret, 1921. In-8°. Bottle-green morocco leather signed “Weckesser et fils,” with multiple gold fillets framing the covers, spined, gold-embossed, with guilloché edges; beige morocco linings adorned with a large gilded and mosaic Art Nouveau design; flamed paper endpapers; double pebbled paper endpapers; gilded edges on small tabs; ornamented cover in good condition (spine burnished with some minor scuffing). In a bordered slipcase (leather slightly burnished). First illustrated edition comprising 20 compositions by Edmond Malassis etched by Léon Boisson: 14 frontispieces, including 1 frontispiece in color, 2 section titles, and 11 plates in black; 1 cover vignette and 1 title vignette, 6 headbands, and 6 tailpieces. Printed in a run of 400 numbered copies; one of the first 100 on Japanese paper (no. 75), enhanced with one of the 100 sets of pre-letter engravings with a note, on Japanese paper (special cover, preserved). Very attractive mosaic floral decoration on the endpapers. Ref. Carteret IV:167. - Monod 4881.
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