LITERATURE COLLECTION. ILLUSTRATED REPRINTS.

-RABELAIS. Gargantua. Pantagruel. Paris, Éditions du Rameau d’Or, [1950]. 3 volumes in-4. Fawn half-morocco, spine with 4 raised bands, author, title and volume number gilded, gilt headband, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved (spine slightly faded, slight foxing on a few pages of volume 3). Illustrated edition featuring 166 watercolours by Henry Lemarié, stenciled in Maurice Beaufumé’s studio, including headpieces and centre-page vignettes. Limited edition of 800 copies on Arches laid paper, this copy numbered 152.

-DICKENS. David Copperfield. Casablanca, Les Bibliophiles Africains, 1948. 3 vols. in-4. Contemporary brown half-morocco, spine with 4 raised bands, author, title and volume number gilded, blind-stamped fillet on the covers, dust jacket preserved (spine slightly faded). Illustrated edition featuring 176 compositions by Berthold Mahn reproduced in facsimile, including 64 full-page illustrations and 112 headpieces or tailpieces. Numbered copy.