Accession number:
PML 198196
Published:
Paris : Paul Ollendorff, éditeur, 1898.
Description:
[8], 341 pages ; 19 x 12.5 cm
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019.
Notes:
"Tiré à vingt exemplaires sur papier du Japon réservés pour Les XX"--Verso of half-title.
The first three leaves in the twenty copies specially printed for Les "XX" differ slightly from the regular edition.
Binding:
Full red morocco with gold fillets, stamped in gilt on spine with floral onlays of brown, green, and gold, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, by Canape, 1925. Two copies of the publisher's pictorial wrappers illustrated by George Auriol, printed on Japon, are bound in.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Signed by Renard under the special Les XX device, as issued.
Provenance:
Charles Hayoit (his bookplate).
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