PREVOST (Abbot): History of Manon Lecaut... - Lot 147 - Vermot et Associés

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PREVOST (Abbot): History of Manon Lecaut... - Lot 147 - Vermot et Associés
PREVOST (Abbot): History of Manon Lecaut and the Chevalier des Grieux. Illustrated edition by Tony Johannot, preceded by a notice on the author by Jules Janin. Paris, Bourdin, no date (1839). In-8 full red morocco, smooth spine decorated, large and important decoration of romantic style gilt on the boards, gilt head, untrimmed, green silk lining, inner lace, red morocco spine and band folder, lined case (spine of the folder very slightly faded, tiny tear at the foot of the spine). First edition of the illustrations by Johannot. One of the very rare copies on china paper. Frontispiece in cameo, 18 woodcut out-of-text compositions and 90 vignettes in the text, plus two ornamented woodcut and gold printed faux-titles for each of the two parts. A very nice copy WITHOUT RUBBISHES (which is very rare for this paper), richly bound by René Kieffer.
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