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Aimée

Coigny de


Étienne

Lamy


Mémoires de Aimée de Coigny

1906175 x 255 mm

FIRST EDITION
ONE OF 20 EX. ON ARCHES VELIN PAPER reserved for XX and signed
Beautiful lined binding by Huser

500 €

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Copy on large paper Top draw only First Edition Autograph

Description

FIRST EDITION.
SPECIAL EDITION OF 20 COPIES REPRINTED IN-8 ON VELLUM PAPER FROM THE ARCHES FACTORIES FOR THE XX AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 

The portrait of Aimée de Coigny in heliogravure after the painting by A. Wertmüller in the frontispiece is here in a double state: before the letter on Japon appliqué and with the letter on vellum. The frontispiece portrait by Aimée de Coigny in heliogravure after the painting by A. Wertmüller is here in a double state: before the letter on Japon appliqué and with the letter on vellum.

Complete with the second cover reserved exclusively for this edition.

A well-bound copy of the period by Huser in doubled morocco with brocaded silk endpapers.

 

Paris,Calmann Levy,Undated [1906].In-8, Bound,175 x 255 mm,293 pp + table.

Contemporary binding by G. Huser. Full violet morocco lined with chocolate morocco, blocked silk endpapers, ribbed spine, gilt title, all edges gilt, double covers and spine preserved, bookmark, slipcase. Spine unstained.

Bio

auteur

Aimée Coigny de

Anne-Françoise-Aimée de Franquetot de Coigny

(Paris: 12 October 1769 - 17 January 1820)

French woman of the world and salonnière. The muse of André Chénier, who immortalised her as La Jeune Captive, she left a remarkable diary.

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auteur

Étienne Lamy

(Cize: June 1845 - Paris: 9 January 1919)

French lawyer, journalist and politician, perpetual secretary of the Académie française.

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