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MÉRIMÉE (Prosper) / La double méprise.
The item was sold for 643 €
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MÉRIMÉE (Prosper) / La double méprise.
Paris, L. Carteret, 1902. Large in-8, [2] f., 116 p., [2] f.
(the last blank), navy blue long-grained morocco, 5-rib spine, gilt author, title, place and date, ornate caissons, boards framed with a double gilt fillet and decorated with a wide border of gilt irons and fillets, gilt fillet at the edges, guilloche corners, morocco doubled flyleaves decorated with a set of gilt fillets and wide roulette, pink moiré satin lining and endpapers, cover and spine preserved, gilt edges. and spine, gilt edges on witnesses, slipcase [Chambolle-Duru] (slight rubbing to slipcase).
Edition illustrated with original watercolors by Bertrand, printed in color.
Edition announced at 150 copies on Marais wove paper. Carteret mentions 200 copies on this paper and 5 on japon. This one is no. 130.
PROVENANCE
Cortland Field Bishop, 1870-1935, American bibliophile whose collection included remarkable French bindings (gilt engraved bookplate)| Van Sikele, Belgium (Ghent), 20th c. (armorial bookplate) (Carteret, IV, 279.)
Paris, L. Carteret, 1902. Large in-8, [2] f., 116 p., [2] f.
(the last blank), navy blue long-grained morocco, 5-rib spine, gilt author, title, place and date, ornate caissons, boards framed with a double gilt fillet and decorated with a wide border of gilt irons and fillets, gilt fillet at the edges, guilloche corners, morocco doubled flyleaves decorated with a set of gilt fillets and wide roulette, pink moiré satin lining and endpapers, cover and spine preserved, gilt edges. and spine, gilt edges on witnesses, slipcase [Chambolle-Duru] (slight rubbing to slipcase).
Edition illustrated with original watercolors by Bertrand, printed in color.
Edition announced at 150 copies on Marais wove paper. Carteret mentions 200 copies on this paper and 5 on japon. This one is no. 130.
PROVENANCE
Cortland Field Bishop, 1870-1935, American bibliophile whose collection included remarkable French bindings (gilt engraved bookplate)| Van Sikele, Belgium (Ghent), 20th c. (armorial bookplate) (Carteret, IV, 279.)