Description

RARE FIRST EDITION.
UNIQUE EDITION OF 100 COPIES ON JAPON PAPER.
COPY NUMBER 1.

Unique issue published to coincide with the Exhibition of the book summarising "The History of the Book from the Origins of Writing"Edited by Charles Mendel with contributions from Maurice Barrès, Louis de Belfort de la Roque, G. de Chamoisel, Paul de Chaux, Lucien Descaves, F. Drouin, E. Dubois, Baron d'Eylac, Guyot-Daubès, A. l'Esprit, Alphonse Labitte, J. de Riols, Georges Veyrat, Léon Vidal.
Beautiful colour cover by M. Verneuil, reproduced in chromotypography by Ducourtioux and Huillard, and reproduced in black in the frontispiece. Drawings by M. Jamas.
The volume opens with the "options on the Book by the literary elite"Autograph facsimile quotations from Jules Simon, Émile Zola, François Coppé, Eugène Muller, Jean Aicard...

"This publication is intended to preserve the memory of the Exposition Internationale du Livrewhich, under the skilful direction of Major G. Sénéchal and Mr Lucien Layus, secretary to the Cercle de la Librairie, was held in Paris this summer and autumn, and was a great success". (CopyrightMarch 1895)

A well-bound copy of the period with all the advertising pages, including a fold-out map, the list of awards and the list of jurors by class printed on blue paper.