washed, some light browning on title and last few leaves, top and fore-margins cut close catching side notes on pages 154 & 166 and pagination on page 7. Late 19th-century tan morocco, decorated in a repeated diagonal pattern of inlaid blue morocco arabesques each with an inlaid red morocco clover and gold-stamped sprigs, the pattern defined by a triple gilt rule of undulating lines with goldstamped circles at the join points, spine richly gilt using the same figure, blue morocco doublures with wide dentelles, edges gilt, set in a blue full-morocco clamshell box, lined with brown morocco, gilt-stamped title on spine, the whole by Emile Mercier, successor to Cuzin
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