GAUTIER (Théophile) - MILIUS (Félix-Augustin) - AVRIL (Paul).
L'Eldorado ou Fortunio. Published on the original edition.
Paris: Motteroz pour les Amis des livres, 1880. - In-8, 252 x 163: frontispiece, (2 ff.), V, 243 pp., (1 f.), 11 plates, printed cover. Dark green morocco, boards decorated with a rich frame of beige morocco interlacing between two straight and curved bands of havana morocco, ribbed spine decorated in the same spirit, dark green morocco framed inside, decorated with bands of beige and havana morocco interlaced at the corners, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (Ch. Lanoé).
Extremely elegant deluxe edition, 115 copies on strong vellum, illustrated with 12 hors texte etchings by Félix-Augustin MILIUS (1843-1894) and 81 vignettes by Paul AVRIL, i.e. 27 fleurons, 27 lettrines and 27 culs-de-lampe.
Copy number 46, specially printed for M. Legrand. It includes 3 proofs of the hors-texts (avant la lettre with remarks on japon, état terminé on japon and état terminé on vélin), 2 proofs on chine of the fleurons and culs-de-lampe, in black and bistre, and three proofs of the lettrines, including 2 on chine like the fleurons and culs-de-lampe, and the état terminé printed in the text.
A superb copy in a mosaic binding by Charles Lanoé.
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