Cyrano de Bergerac.
ROSTAND (Edmond) illustrated by Edmond MALASSIS
Paris - Armand Magnier - 1899
- Bookbinder : Marius MICHEL
- Format : In-4.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 299 pp.
Leather-edged slipcase. Bound in solid red morocco, black morocco listel and gilt net. Spine decorated with mosaic brown morocco olive branches, red morocco lining adorned with golden fillets, brown morocco listel and a frieze of mosaic brown and black morocco olive leaves and olives. Gold brocaded silk guards, double guards. Gilded edges on witnesses. Original paper covers and spine bound in. Binding signed Marius MICHEL.
Unique copy decorated with 45 original watercolours signed by Edmond Malassis.
LIMITED DRAW to 505 copies, this one on vat vellum paper, one of the very rare reimposed in in-4 format.
This first illustrated edition of Edmond Rostand's masterpiece was originally decorated with woodcuts by François Thevenot, Bernard, Flameng, Laurens, Léandre and Moreau. The book was a complete success, but Carteret regretted its lack of unity: Carteret illustrated IV p. 349 (only mentions 5 reimposed in-4 on Chinese paper).
Superb binding lined with Marius Michel.
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