DROZ (G.). Monsieur, Madame and Bébé. Edition illustrated by - Lot 234

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DROZ (G.). Monsieur, Madame and Bébé. Edition illustrated by - Lot 234
DROZ (G.). Monsieur, Madame and Bébé. Edition illustrated by Edmond Morin and decorated with a portrait of the author, in frontispiece, engraved by Léopold Flameng. P., Havard, 1878. Gr. in-8, red marocco, spine with 5 nerves decorated with small irons, boards decorated with a frame formed by 5 threads and rows of pearls with broken angles and middles with arabesques, lined with blue marocco decorated with a very important mosaic frame in dark blue marocco set with threads, surrounded by gilt flowers and birds, red moire endpapers, double combed paper endpapers, gilt on witnesses, illus. cover and spine cons. (Mercier, successor of Cuzin). FIRST ISSUE of the 170 beautiful vignettes by Edmond Morin engraved on wood by Léveillé, Bellanger, etc... " One of the masterpieces of contemporary illustration " according to Henri Beraldi (Les graveurs du XIXe, t. 10, p. 144). ONE OF THE 50 EXEMPLIES ON CHINESE PAPER (No. 32), the most sought-after. VERY RICH MERCIER DUPLICATE BINDING, worthy of the most flamboyant bindings executed by his master Cuzin.
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