257 - MAUPASSANT. THEVENOT.

MAUPASSANT. THEVENOT. *Boule de suif*. Paris, Armand Magnier, 1897. In-4 (31 x 23 cm), VII-110-(1) pp. Red morocco leather binding of the period, spine with raised ribs, author, title, and date in gold, black mosaic framing on the panels and covers, gilded fillet on the headbands and fore-edges, endpapers lined with black morocco and adorned with a red mosaic border, endpapers lined with red tabis, edges gilt on endpapers, original cover preserved, in a half-bound slipcase with bands and a marbled case [Charles Canoë] (case and spine of the slipcase slightly rubbed). Description: A superb, very well-bound copy. Enriched with 55 watercolors by Alcide Théophile Robaudi, replacing the woodcuts based on Thévenot. Most are signed “A. Robaudi” or “A. R.,” all in the text, including 7 full-page illustrations, one on the half-title page, and a medallion on the title page. A few woodcuts engraved in black and printed prior to the book’s publication by A. Romagnol are included in the volume. Provenance: engraved bookplate by Louis Fricotelle; bookplate by Henri Barthélemy.