REF. 0799

Les noces corinthiennes

Anatole France

Publisher: Pelletan
Place: Paris
Date: 1902
Format: In-4 (297 x 237 mm)
Binding: Marius Michel
Collation: VIII-124 pp., (21) ff.
Edition: Limited deluxe edition
Artist: Auguste Leroux
Language: French
Century: 20th century
Distinctive features: From the libraries of James Hazen Hyde and Jean-Claude Delaunay

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FRANCE (Anatole). Les noces corinthiennes. Édition définitive décorée de vingt compositions d'Auguste Leroux gravées par Ernest Florian.
Paris: Pelletan, 1902.

Quarto (297 × 237 mm). VIII, 124 pp., (21) ff.
Full brown morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt author and title, blind fillet on turn-ins, gilt edges, elaborate inlaid morocco doublures with a dark green ivy design and red berries, matching slipcase. Binding by Marius Michel.

Illustrated edition. One of only 20 copies printed on ancien Japon or large vellum and reimposed to quarto format, this copy number 10, specially printed for James H. Hyde (1876–1959).
With an original signed watercolour by Auguste Leroux and one of the 10 suites on China paper, bringing the total to 21 signed compositions.

Light rubbing to the spine, slightly toned.

Provenance: from the library of Jean-Claude Delaunay, with his bookplate.

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