Limited Edition, Beautifully Bound and Illustrated
Amours du Chevalier de Faublas. par Louvet de Couvray. Avec une preface par Hippolyte Fournier.
Paris: Librairie Des Bibliophiles, 1884.
Les Amours du Chevalier de Faubla, par Louvet de Couvray. Avec une preface par Hippolyte Fournier. Paris: Librairie Des Bibliophiles, 1884.
Limited edition, limited to 220 copies. This being one of 170 on Hollande. 5 small octavo volumes in fours (6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 169 x 103 mm). [4], xxvi, [2], 250, [2]; [4], 276; [4], 223, [1]; [4], 317, [3]; [4], 320, [4] pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and fifteen plates after Paul Avril by L. Monzies. Each illustration in two states,
Beautifully bound in full blue morocco by K. Thevenet Rel. Boards triple-ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges single-ruled in gilt. Elaborate gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Each volume with a silk page marker. Volumes with three previous owner's bookplates on front free endpapers, except volume 4 which only has one. Some occasional minor toning and light offsetting from plates. Overall a very beautiful set.
"Jouaust's finely printed and unexpurgated edition illustrated with the curious etchings by Monzies, after the designs of Paul Avril."
HBS 67724.
$1,500.
Price: $1,500.00
Item #67724