CONTES et NOUVELLES EN VERS -- Tome Premier et Tome Second
186244665Paris: Editions Leclere. 1862. Limited Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo; iv 208 vi; vi 207 v pages; Contents of both volumes clean and secure in contemporary bindings of handsome black half-leather with 5 raised bands at spines marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Some scattered foxing to initial leaves and concluding leaves; some crazing at spine rubbed a bit at extremities. An attractive set. Gilt titles in second compartments and volume number in third compartments. Title pages printed in Red & Black. Set Number 199 of a Limited Edition of only 200 copies; both books numbered 199. Silk place ribbons. Tome I with vignette medallion portrait of Voltaire Tome II vignette of Grecourt. Each author's contribution has a title page and an egraved in-text illustration; first volume has 21 illustrations and second volume has 25 illustrations. Voltaire's pieces begin with: L'Education d'un Prince. Grecourt's begin with Le Cuisinier Scrupuleux. Tome Premier iv 208 vi; Tome Second vi 207 v. . Editions Leclere hardcover
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