HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl)

HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl)

The Cathedral. Paris, Collection éclectique, Blaizot, René Kieffer, 1909. In-4, navy blue calf, original copperplate embedded on the first plate, smooth decorated spine, cold title and cathedral decoration, second plate decorated with a border and a large cathedral plaque, double inner fillet, silk print mounted in lining, brocaded silk endpapers with floral decoration, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine, case (René Kieffer).
Luxury edition illustrated with 64 original etchings by
Charles Jouas.

Edition at 250 copies, this one of the 20 on vellum paper including 2 states of the engravings (final state and state with the

remarks).

Binding by René Kieffer, decorated on the second cover, cold stamped, with a remarkable cathedral plaque signed Roulland. On the first plate, the bookbinder has embedded the original copper for the frontispiece| in lining were mounted 2 proofs drawn on silk by

Charles Jouas.

Superb

copy.

From the Étienne Beauvillain library, with its ex-libris engraved by Charles Jouas

.

Small scratch at the bottom of the first course.