281 - CONSTANT, Benjamin. JEANNIOT, G.

CONSTANT, Benjamin. JEANNIOT, G. Adolphe: An Anecdote Found Among the Papers of an Unknown Person. Paris, 1901. In-4 (28 x 22 cm), (10)-197-(1) pp. Contemporary havana morocco leather, ribbed spine, author’s name and title in gold, place and date at the bottom, figurative design by Jeanniot incised on leather and tinted, set into the upper cover, double gold fillet on the edges, guilloché caps, endpapers and half-leather linings lined with green silk, triple morocco binding adorned with triple gilt fillets on the endpapers, gilt edges, original cover preserved, in a marbled slipcase with morocco trim [Noulhac, 1912] (minimal scuffing on two raised bands and on the slipcase). Description: A very fine copy. Illustrated with 50 black etchings by Georges Jeanniot, including 9 out-of-text plates. Preface by Paul Hervieu. Limited edition of 131 numbered copies; this is the unnumbered copy printed on Japanese paper. With wide margins. Enhanced with a black-and-white suite of the first state for the plates and a black-and-white pre-letter print for the vignettes. Includes one of the original sketches, in black and color, signed by Jeanniot, bound at the front of the volume. Bound with the title page from the folder of the first state of the plates. A printed prospectus at the end. Bound together with the following: -CLÉMENT-JANIN. Le Livre d'Artiste. Paris, Bosse, 1904. In-4, cover preserved Limited edition of 115 numbered copies. One of 5 copies on Japanese paper, with a suite on China paper and 3 states of the drypoint, this one being No. 3. Includes an original drypoint portrait of Benjamin Constant and 12 studies intended to illustrate *Adolphe* by Jeanniot, woodcuts in black and color by Jules Germain. First edition. All proofs are signed in pencil. Clément-Janin, writer, bibliophile, publisher, and art critic. Provenance: Amélie Blumenfeld-Sciama, with her 19th-century ex libris label engraved by Stern.