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Cinq contes parisiens / illustrations de Louis Legrand.

Accession number
TMP 2023-96.43
Creator
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893, author.
Published
Paris : Pour Les cent bibliophiles, 1905.
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Edition of 130 numbered copies on japon paper.
Library has copy no. 44, printed for Charles Gadala.
Illustrated with color-printed frontispiece and 5 color-printed plates executed in line etching and aquatint (counted in the pagination); with 76 etched textual vignettes by Legrand, printed throughout "en bistre" and 4 illustrated process-block initials.
Printed at the press of Philippe Renouard.
Description
97 pages : illustrations, partly color (etching and aquatint) ; 29.3 x 18.8 cm
Provenance
Charles Gadala; from the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Binding
Incised floral design on full purple morocco, gilt turn-ins, by Canape; original wrappers bound in.
Classification
Department