128 - DAUDET, Alphonse. Tartarin in the Alps.

DAUDET, Alphonse. Tartarin in the Alps. First edition in a deluxe Japanese-style printing of one of Daudet’s finest novels. A beautiful copy with wide margins, with its original covers intact. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1885. Quarto, burgundy half-shagreen with corners edged in a gold fillet, spine with 4 raised bands filleted in gold and cold-stamped, triple gold fillet framing the panels, author’s name and title in gold lettering, marbled paper endpapers and linings, gilt head edge, original covers and spine preserved, margins untrimmed (contemporary binding). 334 pp., 1 portrait of the author, 16 color watercolor plates, and numerous black-and-white vignettes in the text, engraved by the Guillaume brothers after works by Aranda, de Beaumont, Montenard, de Myrbach, and Rossi. Scuffs with losses on the spine and at the edges; a loss on the paper of the front cover; slight yellowing along the margins of the original cover. First edition of the second volume of the adventures of the illustrious hero from Tarascon, illustrated with 16 color watercolors as inserts and numerous black-and-white vignettes in the text, drawn by Aranda, de Beaumont, Montenard, de Myrbach, and Rossi, and engraved by the Guillaume brothers. A deluxe edition limited to 125 copies on Japanese paper; this is one of the 100 numbered copies containing the engraved portrait of Alphonse Daudet on Japanese paper, based on a watercolor by Rossi (no. 80). [Vicaire, *Manuel de l'amateur*, 57–58; Carteret, I, 197] A fine copy.