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152 - 11 VOLUMES: ROMANTIC LITERATURE - *The Adventures of King Pa…
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11 VOLUMES: ROMANTIC LITERATURE - *The Adventures of King Pausole*, Pierre Louÿs, 28 original woodcuts by Foujita, *Le livre de demain*, 174 pp., 1928 - *Les Femmes d’amis* (Friends’ Wives), by Georges Courteline, with illustrations by Touchagues, Nouvelle Librairie de France & Gründ, 311 pp., 1947, half-leather binding with corner caps - *Love: The Art of Love* by Ovid, published by Nilsson, colour watercolours by Edith Follet on transparent paper, 219 pp., 1920, half-cloth binding with corner protectors - *The Venetian Idyll*, Gabriel Soulages, original engraving illustrations by Jean Traynier, Les Presses de la Cité, 1945, no. 180/500 on Lana rag paper, 117 pp., loose-leaf in slipcase (damaged) - *Fêtes galantes*, Paul Verlaine, *Le livre de qualité*, illustrated with 57 original colour drawings by P.E. Bécat, 132 pp., 1953, no. 1991 on Lana rag paper, loose sheets in a slipcase - *Les Aventures du roi Pausole*, Pierre Louÿs, illustrations by Suzanne Ballivet, Éditions du Livre, 1945, 247 pp., personalised copy bound in Johannot pure-thread cloth, loose-leaf in a slipcase, with a set of engravings (11) - *Etrennes gaillardes dédiées à ma commère ou le petit neveu de Grécourt*, illustrations by André Hubert, Éditions de l’Odéon, 130 pp., copy no. 50 on Lana chiffon vellum containing a series of black-and-white illustrations and a sheet of unpublished sketches, loose-leafed in a slipcase - *Le Lys rouge*, Anatole France, Athéna, 1947, original out-of-text drawings and colour initials after André Hofer, 271 pp., no. 288 on Rives BFK paper, loose-leaf in a slipcase - *Le Cabaret de la belle femme*, Roland Dorgelès, Guilhot Editeur, 1947, 168 pp., no. 432 on Johannot pure-fibre vellum, lithographs by Edmond Lajoux, half-leather binding with corner protectors - *La Fontaine aux trois miracles*, Charles Kunstler, *Au moulin de Pen-Mur*, lithographs by Perraudin, no. 447 on luxury vellum, 1946, 247 pp., loose sheets in a slipcase - *Fabliaux du moyen âge*, watercolours by Jean Gradassi, Éditions du Fleuve (Lyon), no. 471 on Rives vat-made vellum, unpaginated (approx. 280 pp.), 1958, bound in full red leather, gilded floral motif on the covers, floral frieze framing each page, in slipcase Expert: Mr Geoffroi PICARD DU CHAMBON
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