COSTER (Charles de). La Légende et les Aventures héroïques, - Lot 60

COSTER (Charles de). La Légende et les Aventures héroïques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs. Second edition, illustrated with thirty-two unpublished etchings. Brussels, Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1869. In-4, red half-maroq, corners, spine decorated and mosaic, untrimmed, yellow cover illus. and spine cons. (Champs-Stroobants). Reissue of the original edition, with new title and cover, preface, table of plates and 32 etchings (front and 31 hors-texte), 17 more than in the original. The yellow cover is that reproduced by Carteret, before the edition statement and the plates printed on tinted laid paper (first edition), the plates engraved by Artan, Becker, Boulenger, Clays, De Groux, Dillens, Duwée, Fourmois, Hubert, Jaugey, Lauters, Rops (Exsteens, 468 to 472), Schaefels, Smits, de Schampheleer, Van Camp, Van der Hecht and Van der Vin. (Very slight spotting on a few pages). Van der Perre, "Les 1ères éditions...", in Le Livre & l'estampe, II, p. 34 ff; Grisay, 1996, p. 23. Rops : Rouir III : 691 : cat. 601.6, 854.2, 859.7, 860.4, 861.3. SUPERB EXEMPLAIRE, BINDED IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY, FROM THE VICTOR MERCIER LIBRARY. Provenance: - Victor Mercier Library