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Adventures Merveilleuses 
De Huon De Bordeaux. 1898.

 

 

 

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Adventures Merveilleuses De Huon De Bordeaux. Pair de France et de la Belle Escalarmonde Ainsi Que du Petit roi de Feerie Auberon. Mises en Nouveau Langage Par Gaston Paris De L'Academie Francaise. Se trouve a la Maison Didot, 56 Rue Jacob a Paris. Acheve d'imprimer le texte at les plances en coleurs sur la presses de la maison Didot au Mesnil-sur-l'Estree (Eure) le 30 novembre 1898. Characteres nouveaux dessines par Eugene Grasset fondus par la maison Peignot. Aquarelles de Manuel Orazi reproduites en fac-simile par la maison B. Delaye, L. Hemmerle & Co. Couverture coloriee au patron dans les ateliers Nervet. Quarto. Half gold cloth over original illustrated papers on board, contemporary plain endpapers. 315pp, 12 colour plate, all tissue guarded. All text pages in French, surrounded with elaborate black decoration. Covers a little bumped at edges with light marks, pages lightly age toned to edges. An attractive book with scarce original covers.
Cat. No. 91906                                               £180

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