Lot n° 133
Estimation :
200 - 300
EUR
LEROUX. FRANCE (Anatole). La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque. Paris, Édouard Pelletan, 1911.
LEROUX. FRANCE (Anatole). The rotisserie of the queen Pedauque. Paris, Édouard Pelletan, 1911. In-4, navy blue half-maroquin with corners, spine with 3 raised bands decorated with gilt stippling, author, title and date gilt, mosaic decoration covering a large central box, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (one corner dulled; brown spots).
Deluxe edition, decorated with a portrait and 176 woodcuts, some of them out of the text in 2 tones, after Auguste Leroux, engraved by Duplessis, Ernest Florian, Froment, Gusman and Perrichon. Text nicely printed by the Imprimerie Nationale in italic Garamond.
Limited edition of 410 copies: one of 333 on vellum (n°318). Illustrated prospectus (4 pages) bound at the end.
Enriched with an autograph letter signed by Anatole France, to a "Dear Friend", dated "Tuesday", ½ p. in-12, headed to the Hotel Restaurant du Chapon fin in Bordeaux. "I had to hasten my departure. I arrive in Bordeaux at 6 a.m. [] I mail myself for you to the library the three volumes that you have so kindly communicated to me."
Provenance : Gaston Maury (2 woodcut bookplates).
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