253 - GOUDEAU, Emile. LEPERE.

GOUDEAU, Emile. LEPERE. Parisian Landscapes. Times of Day and Seasons. Paris, printed for Henri Beraldi, 1892. Large 8vo (27 x 18.5 cm), XV-175-(1) pp., frontispiece, in-text illustrations, and plates. Contemporary lemon-colored morocco, ribbed spine, author, title, and date in gold, gold interlaced panels, geometric framing with chains and interlaced quadruple gold fillets on the covers, gilded fillets framing the endpapers, brown silk endpapers, double laid paper endpapers, edges gilded on a strip, cover preserved in a half-bound slipcase with bands and flaps, the whole housed in a marbled slipcase [Canape R. D.] (the morocco leather has a very slight mottled patina; the spine of the slipcase is slightly dulled and shows some rubbing along the raised bands). Catalog entry: A rare first edition of this art book, printed especially for the bibliophile Henri Beraldi. Limited edition of 138 copies on Marais vellum; this is no. 131. Includes 5 black etchings as inserts in a serpentine-patterned slipcase, including the frontispiece, and 42 original woodcuts in the text, all drawn and engraved by Auguste Lepère. A very fine copy with full margins, perfectly bound by Canape. This copy is enhanced by an original letter from Auguste Lepère dated May 20, 1896, in which he discusses the edition and books, likely with the owner of this copy. Maurice Quarré bookplate, engraved in color on a separate sheet and bound at the head of the volume.