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Nerval (Gerard de) Sylvie; Souvenirs de Valois, number 55 of 150 copies on Japon imperial, from an edition limited to 1000, etchings by Ed. Rudaux, bound in later green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, by Huser, covers with all over design of six rows of five oval wreaths in gilt, each containing a small rose in alternating red and white morocco, the whole within two triple gilt fillet borders, spine in compartments with title and rose & wreath in gilt and five raised bands, apricot silk doublures and flyleaves, turn-ins of multiple gilt rules and rolls of small dots, signed at foot of front turn-in, original wrappers bound in, g.e., preserved in green morocco-backed card chemise (spine faded) and board slip-case with sides of vellum, 8vo (binding c.195 x 130mm.), Paris, 1886.

Description

Nerval (Gerard de) Sylvie; Souvenirs de Valois, number 55 of 150 copies on Japon imperial, from an edition limited to 1000, etchings by Ed. Rudaux, bound in later green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, by Huser, covers with all over design of six rows of five oval wreaths in gilt, each containing a small rose in alternating red and white morocco, the whole within two triple gilt fillet borders, spine in compartments with title and rose & wreath in gilt and five raised bands, apricot silk doublures and flyleaves, turn-ins of multiple gilt rules and rolls of small dots, signed at foot of front turn-in, original wrappers bound in, g.e., preserved in green morocco-backed card chemise (spine faded) and board slip-case with sides of vellum, 8vo (binding c.195 x 130mm.), Paris, 1886.

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