Anatole FRANCE. Les Opinions de monsieur... - Lot 94 - Pescheteau-Badin

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Anatole FRANCE. Les Opinions de monsieur... - Lot 94 - Pescheteau-Badin
Anatole FRANCE. Les Opinions de monsieur Jérôme Coignard. Paris, Mornay, 1924. In-8, very wide margins (24x30.5 cm), paperback, red half-maroquin cover, 4-spine spine, slipcase. Monod, I-4929 /// (2f.)-215-(1f.). Numerous illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage, including 3 for the cover, an etching frontispiece in color and 85 illustrations in the text in black, including a title vignette, 25 chapter-heads, 13 full-page illustrations, 23 lettering illustrations and 23 decorative plates. Edition of 1,107 copies, this being a unique copy, one of the top 4 on Japon Antique (no. 2) containing some of Sylvain Sauvage's originals and a triple artist's suite of engravings, including one on Japon Antique, one on Chine and the definitive state in the volume. The originals consist of three beautiful original watercolors for the cover, 2 intermediate states of the etching, 16 attempted illustrations in Indian ink and 26 drawn or printed tracings. The originals are housed in a second red half-maroquin cover.
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