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1902180 x 225 mm

ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated by Madeleine Lemaire.
ONE OF 500 copies on Simili Japon.

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ORIGINAL EDITION.  Drawings by Madeleine Lemaire.
ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES ON SIMILI JAPON LIPPS
After 50 copies on Chine paper, 10 copies on Japon paper, 5 copies on Vélin paper.
Wood-engraved framing on each page and opposite each piece of verse a woodcut vignette by Madeleine Lemaire.
This is a fine edition with very fine floral decoration reminiscent of the illustrations in the Pleasures and Days by Proust, which Madeleine Lemaire illustrated a few years earlier.
"Eight tens of rosaries, for the use of artistic fingers and distinguished hearts, still distant enough from religious perfection to associate literature with them."

 

 

Paris,House of books,1902.In-8, Softcover180 x 225 mm,178 pp.

Cover soiled. Uncut. Some spotting.

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Robert de Montesquiou

(Paris: 19 March 1855 - Menton: 11 December 1921)

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