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[DORAT, Claude Joseph]. Les Baisers, preceded by the month o…
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131
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[DORAT, Claude Joseph]. Les Baisers, preceded by the month o…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[DORAT, Claude Joseph].
Les Baisers, preceded by the month of May, a poem.
Rouen, J. Lemonnyer, 1880.
Large 8vo, XXV-106-48 pp. Burgundy morocco, raised ribbed spine, gilt title, compartments decorated with small ironwork and gilt fillets, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, double gilt fillets on the headbands and footbands, gilt scrolls and fillets on the cap bands, gilt edges [Chambolle-Duru] (foxing).
Description:
A fine copy in morocco leather binding.
A verbatim reprint in 1880 of the original 1770 edition with engravings by Eisen.
The illustrations consist of a frontispiece, a plate, numerous chapter headings and end-piece illustrations.
Special edition printed on large-format paper, limited to 200 copies, including 50 on Chinese paper; this copy is no. 96.
Wide margins; text in red and black.
Engravings accompanied by two sets on Chinese paper, also in bistre and orange sanguine.
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