Lot 166
  • 166

Proust, Marcel -- John Ruskin

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • Proust, Marcel -- John Ruskin
  • Sésame et les Lys. Des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines. Traduction, notes et préface par Marcel Proust. Paris, Mercure de France, 1906.
  • ink and paper
In-12 (184 x 116 mm). Bradel papier marbré lie-de-vin, pièce de titre noire. Exemplaire à toutes marges (Reliure de l’époque). Chemise à rabats postérieure.
Petites restaurations aux coiffes et aux charnières.

Edition originale de la traduction et de la préface de Marcel Proust.
Exemplaire n° 481.

Précieux exemplaire de Jacques-Émile Blanche, portant cet envoi autographe signé : "à Jacques-Émile Blanche, en admiration du peintre et de l’écrivain, son ami reconnaissant Marcel Proust", sur un feuillet blanc précédant le faux-titre.

Condition

Petites restaurations aux coiffes et aux charnières.
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