Moreau, HégésippePetits Contes à ma soeur. With... Lot 1258

Moreau, HégésippePetits Contes à ma soeur. With 62 woodcut illustrations by Louis Dunki and 2 additional suites of all woodcuts on Japan and China. Paris, É. Pelletan, 1896. 195 p., 4 vols. 4°. Midnight blue marocco with gilt-stamped title, gilt edges, richly gilt-stamped blue marocco inner boards with signature of the French bookbinder Henri Noulhac, staggered partly dotted fillets, floral-vegetable borders and rocaille ornaments, double endpapers of gray moiré silk and marbled paper, gilt edges on three sides, in lined HMaroquin slipcase with marbled paper cover. Bindings Moreau, Hégésippe Petits Contes à ma soeur. With 62 woodcut illustrations by Louis Dunki and 2 additional suites of all woodcuts on Japan and China. Paris, É. Pelletan, 1896. 195 p., 4 vols. 4°. Midnight blue marocco with gilt-stamped title, gilt edges, richly gilt-stamped blue marocco inner boards with signature of the French bookbinder Henri Noulhac, staggered partly dotted fillets, floral-vegetable borders and rocaille ornaments, double endpapers of gray moiré silk and marbled paper, gilt edges on three sides, in lined HMaroquin slipcase with marbled paper cover. One of 25 numbered copies (GA 350) on Japon des Manufactures Impériales, with a double tirage of all woodcuts on japon ancien and chine. - One of the first publications by Édouard Pelletan illustrated with 62 compositions by the Swiss painter Louis Dunki, which were cut in wood by Clément-Édouard Bellenger. - The present copy printed for M. Ferdinand Pradeau. - Minimal occasional foxing. Overall an extremely well-preserved copy in decorative Noulhac binding. Book bindings - With 62 woodcut illustrations by Louis Dunki a. 2 additional suites of all woodcuts on Japan and China. Midnight blue morocco with gilt title, gilt edges, richly gilt blue morocco inner boards signed by the French bookinder Henri Noulhac, with staggered fillets, floral-vegetable borders and rocaille ornaments, double endpapers of grey moiré silk and marbled paper, gilt edges on three sides, in a lined morocco slipcase with marbled paper cover. - One of 25 numbered copies (total edition 350) on Japon des Manufactures Impériales, with a double tirage of all woodcuts on japon ancien and chine. - One of the first publications by Édouard Pelletan illustrated with 62 compositions by the Swiss painter Louis Dunki, cut in wood by Clément-Édouard Bellenger. - The present copy printed for M. Ferdinand Pradeau. - Sporadically minimally foxed. Overall very well preserved copy in decorative Noulhac binding.