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$US 2000.00
Pierre, Louys
Byblis
Imprint: Paris, A. Ferroud, 1901
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Small 8to. 3/4 green morocco over marble paper boards. Spine with gilt decoration with tan and brown leather onlays and gilt stamped title, author and date. Silk tie. t.e.g. Slight wear to extremities. Bound by De La Chaux & Durvand. Number 198 of 200 copies printed on "papier velin d'Arches" and signed by Ferroud. Original wrappers bound in. Occasional spotting, mostly on endpapers. Bookplates of Albert Clairouin, and Robert & Gladys Koch, the prominent art historian who focused on the turn-of-the-20th century and his well-known antiques dealer wife. Wrappers beautifully illustrated by Henri Caruchet who also contributed magnificent pictorial and floral border decoration in vivid colors to nearly every page in the Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Alphonse Mucha.
Illustrated by Henri Caruchet
Stock number:1117.