SAND (Maurice). Masques et bouffons (Italian comedy). Text a - Lot 162

SAND (Maurice). Masques et bouffons (Italian comedy). Text and drawings by Maurice Sand, engravings by A. Monceau. Preface by George Sand. Paris, Michel Lévy , 1860. 2 vol. gr. in-8, full perc. b., superb special gilt and mosaic irons on spine and boards, gilt tr. (Cart. de l'édit., signed Lenègre). ORIGINAL EDITION and FIRST ISSUE: 50 steel-engraved hors texte figures in sanguine. in sanguine. EXEMPLAIRE IN ITS SUPERB MOSAIC ROMANTIC BINDING, IN NEW CONDITION, to which a complete suite of colored figures has been added in ff. A fine book published by George Sand's son, who, alongside his mother's great reputation, achieved a certain notoriety as a literary figure. He published several novels in the Revue des Deux Mondes (Carteret). Vicaire, VII, 330; Carteret, II, 321; Fléty, 146. Joint: M. Sand. Le théâtre des marionnettes. P., Calmann-Lévy, 1890. L. a. s. added addressed to the director of the Odéon. Set 2 vols.