269 - BALZAC. MOREAU, Adrien.

BALZAC. MOREAU, Adrien. La Vendetta. Paris, Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1904. In-4 (30 x 21 cm), (2) ff., 148 pp. Midnight blue morocco leather, raised ribbed spine adorned with a gold fillet, author, title, and date in gold, geometric mosaic framing on the endpapers and covers, composed of light blue morocco leather and accented with gold fillets, guilloché cap and cut edges, endpapers lined with black morocco and adorned with a wide frame of cream- and dusty-pink-toned flowers in a mosaic pattern on a blue background, endpapers lined with wine-colored silk, gilt edges, cover and spine preserved, in a cardboard slipcase [René Kieffer]. Description: In a superb binding by René Kieffer. Illustrated edition featuring 19 etchings by Xavier Lesueur based on compositions by Adrien Moreau, including a title vignette and 3 plates. Copy on vellum, containing the 19 original drawings in black for the vignettes and in color for the plates. Enriched with two black-and-white prefaces featuring notes on the etchings. A very fine copy. Provenance: ex-libris of Albert Bélinac, a French textile and silk industrialist in Saint-Étienne between the late 19th and 20th centuries (stamped in gold on the upper inside cover).