VERLAINE (Paul). Fêtes Galantes. Illustrations... - Lot 396 - Ferri & Associés

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VERLAINE (Paul). Fêtes Galantes. Illustrations... - Lot 396 - Ferri & Associés
VERLAINE (Paul). Fêtes Galantes. Illustrations by A. Robaudi, engraved in etching in colours and reproduced by hand. P., Imprimé pour Charles Meunier, 1903. In-4, red morocco, flower mosaic in two tones on the spine, lined with lemon maroq. set with a brown maroq. listel and gilt fillets, repeated decoration formed of flowers and foliage mosaic in 4 tones, decorated silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt tr. on witnesses, ill. cover, slipcase (Ch. Meunier, 1904) One of the most typical editions of the period, entirely engraved, printed at 125 copies and illustrated with 49 watercolours after Robaudi, coloured in the doll. A very fine copy on tinted vellum paper, numbered, printed in the name of M. Charles Freund- Deschamps, entirely mounted on tabs, containing a separate suite on China paper, in sanguine, of all the illustrations. It is enriched with an important and very beautiful original watercolour, covering a whole title page and an autograph poem signed by P. Verlaine : Optima, with numerous erasures. SUPERB BINDING BY CH. MEUNIER, of a great refinement, with different colours of the mosaic for each plate. Ex-libris Freund-Deschamps.
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