Avril, Paul Lot n° 850

[POULET-MALASSIS, Auguste ou DROZ, Gustave] Pour servir à l'histoire de nos moeurs. A summer in the country. Correspondence of two young Parisian women collected by a fashionable author [...]. Paris [C. Hirsch (impr. E. Kapp)] 1905 Gr. in-8° : 141 pp. ; 9 h.-t. (some light russeting, especially on margins, some small defaults on covers). Contemporary green half-maroquin with corners, marbled paper boards with gilt fillet, smooth spine with gilt fillet and gilt garland of leaves with insects and flowers highlighted in red, gilt t., cons. cover (top board shaggy, spine slightly faded with minor spotting, corners dull, one inner bit partly split). Untrimmed. Edition of 330 numbered copies, one of 300 on vellum (2nd paper, no. 288), with a double suite, in black and in color, of the 9 free plates, including 1 heliogravure front after Paul Avril. Title printed in red and black with finial. Ref. Dutel 335. - Pia 1462 (no pl. reported). - Perceau 35-10. - Cp. Oberlé, Poulet-Malassis, 910. Joint, another paperback edition: [Id.] - Un été à la campagne [...]. Amsterdam, [A. Brancart], 1891. 16 x 10 cm. Bradel mod. green cloth. Printed on Van Gelder hollande. Title adorned with finial of satyr milking a goat, headbands. Ref. Dutel 871. - Pia 1462. - Perceau 35-8. (2 vols.)