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Histoires et aventures / H.-C. Andersen ; traduction nouvelle précédée d'une préface de Eugène Rodrigues ; eaux-fortes originales et bois dessinés par Alexandre Lunois.

Accession number
PML 140681
Creator
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
Published
Paris : [Alexandre Lunois], 1909.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
"Toutes les planches ont été détruites après tirage"--Colophon.
Illustrations: Numerous color-printed wood-engraved decorations by Suzanne Lepère after Lunois; 41 etched headpieces and vignettes, and 11 plates executed in etching and aquatint by Lunois.
Ed of 146 numbered copies.
Library has copy no 15 of 20 copies on japon paper, with additional suites of the plates in two states before letters and the wood engraved decorations printed in black on chine without letters.
Uncut.
"Achevé d'imprimer sur le presse a bras de A. Lunois ... par E. Fequet Compositeur-pressier."--Colophon.
Description
xiv, 201 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Unbound, unsewn gatherings accompanied by a detached example of the original wrappers; in blue cloth folding box.
Classification
Department