Lot 153
Raparlier (Paul-Romain, binder).- Morin (Louis) Les Cousettes, one of 100 copies on Japon, bound in crushed dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, Paris, 1895
Hammer Price: £600
Description
Raparlier (Paul-Romain, binder).- Morin (Louis) Les Cousettes, number 93 of 100 copies on Japon initialled by the publisher, dry-point frontispiece and vignettes by Henry Somm, tissue guards, finely bound in crushed dark blue morocco, by Paul-Romain Raparlier, covers with border of double fillet between single rows of dots and small floral corner-pieces around a panel of rows of flowers inlaid in pale blue and pink morocco (each row facing alternate direction) within a foliate gilt tooled frame with flowers at corners and sides, spines gilt in compartments of inlaid flowers and five raised bands, turn-ins with floral border, gilt rules, dots and ornaments to corners, pale blue silk moiré doublures and endpapers, original wrappers bound in, g.e., signed at foot of front turn-in, tall 8vo (binding c.265 x 160mm.), Paris, L.Conquet, 1895.
⁂ Paul-Romain Raparlier (1858-1900) trained at the École des Beaux Arts and won a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale du Livre in 1892.
Description
Raparlier (Paul-Romain, binder).- Morin (Louis) Les Cousettes, number 93 of 100 copies on Japon initialled by the publisher, dry-point frontispiece and vignettes by Henry Somm, tissue guards, finely bound in crushed dark blue morocco, by Paul-Romain Raparlier, covers with border of double fillet between single rows of dots and small floral corner-pieces around a panel of rows of flowers inlaid in pale blue and pink morocco (each row facing alternate direction) within a foliate gilt tooled frame with flowers at corners and sides, spines gilt in compartments of inlaid flowers and five raised bands, turn-ins with floral border, gilt rules, dots and ornaments to corners, pale blue silk moiré doublures and endpapers, original wrappers bound in, g.e., signed at foot of front turn-in, tall 8vo (binding c.265 x 160mm.), Paris, L.Conquet, 1895.
⁂ Paul-Romain Raparlier (1858-1900) trained at the École des Beaux Arts and won a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale du Livre in 1892.
