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Zadig or destiny. Oriental history. Paris, Printed for the Friends of Books by Chamerot and Renouard, 1893. In-4, midnight blue morocco, spine with four nerves bearing the title in gold, gold motif between the nerves, red morocco lining decorated with a frame partly delimited by a straight and curved green morocco scroll with rocaille irons at the corners, black moiré silk endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, case (René Aussourd).
8 plates engraved in colours by Gaujean after Garnier, Félicien Rops and Albert Robaudi, under a
legendary
snake
.

Edition of 115 numbered copies, the latter comprising at the end a sequence of 29 plates corresponding to the colour breakdown of each of the

plates.

Nice

copy.

From the Étienne Beauvillain library, with ex-libris.