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(Berthe Morisot)
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- Books and watercolour
Alphonse Daudet. Fromont jeune et Risler ainé. Mœeurs parisiennes. Paris: L. Conquet, 1885
2 vols., 8vo (223 x 142 mm). 12 engraved plates (including frontispiece), each in 4 states, by Emile Bayard. Full brown morocco, spines gilt in six compartments, covers and doublures with elaborate gilt-fillet borders, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, by Gruel; minimal wear at spine ends.
2 vols., 8vo (223 x 142 mm). 12 engraved plates (including frontispiece), each in 4 states, by Emile Bayard. Full brown morocco, spines gilt in six compartments, covers and doublures with elaborate gilt-fillet borders, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, by Gruel; minimal wear at spine ends.
Provenance
L. Conquet (inscriptions cited above; also inserted inscription in his hand: "A. Daudet, E. Bayard, L. Conquet, trois morts, trois amis, dont ce beau livre me rappellerait le souvenir si je pouvais les oublier … 4 juillet 1898") — L. Claretie (bookplate)
Catalogue Note
A splendid extra-illustrated presentation copy. The most important addition to this set is a very fine watercolor by Berthe Morisot (72 x 58 mm, mounted on stiff card signed by Morisot and with watercolor and gilt-paper borders). The watercolor, which depicts a woman in three-quarter profile, is inserted at the beginning of the second volume.
Presentation copy, one of 150 large-paper copies on japon (this copy hors commerce), with presentation inscription by Daudet to publisher L. Conquet: "Exemplaire offert à M. Conquet avec une poignée de mains"). In addition to the Morisot watercolor, other inserted items items include 2 autograph letters each by Daudet and Bayard, all to Conquet — an autograph letter from Eugène Paillet to Conquet — an original watercolor depicting a hanged man and a lounging libertine by Bayard, inscribed to Conquet, on the half-title of volume one — a pencil drawing of a woman reading a letter, by Henri Royer, dedicated to A. Meyer.
Presentation copy, one of 150 large-paper copies on japon (this copy hors commerce), with presentation inscription by Daudet to publisher L. Conquet: "Exemplaire offert à M. Conquet avec une poignée de mains"). In addition to the Morisot watercolor, other inserted items items include 2 autograph letters each by Daudet and Bayard, all to Conquet — an autograph letter from Eugène Paillet to Conquet — an original watercolor depicting a hanged man and a lounging libertine by Bayard, inscribed to Conquet, on the half-title of volume one — a pencil drawing of a woman reading a letter, by Henri Royer, dedicated to A. Meyer.