POESIES de ANACREON nouvellement traduites et accompagnees d'une preface par Maurice Albert

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FINE book. TEG. Bound by Emile Rouselle in an elegant Jansenist binding of full orange crushed levant morocco. Ornate turn ins. Full page b/w illustrations. Head pieces, tailpieces & intials. Rouget engraved Giacomelli drawings. Illustrations by Emile Levy & etched by Champollion. This # 44 of limited edition of 50 copies, printed on China paper made by Hollande de van Gelder. Bound by Emile Rouselle (original wraps bound in) w very ornate gilt dentelle turn ins, but austere board outers with zero decoration, not even in blind. 5 raised ribs with gilt lettered title in 2nd panel & 1885 at very bottom of spine. This would have been one of Rouselle's later bindings. Upper inch of rear gutter line cracked, a few tiny scuff marks on spine itself. Spine lightly sunned but gilt lettering & numbers seem as bright as new. One other tiny flaw at fep front margin. Silk page marker. With the Brick Row Book Shop's oval ticket inside front cover. Brick Row used this design till about 1940. Tipped in slip from a dealer catalog about this very book. From an old Brick Row catalog? 17.5x12(cm), 177pp. FINE book. Limited edition. #44 of 50 copies on China paper. N° de ref. del artículo 001943

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