Contes. Hyalis, Rovère et Angisèle, Xanthis, Divine Bontemps (Louis Edouard Fournier)

Paris: Les XX" / Aux frais du Docteur Emile Goubert, 1908. Louis Edouard Fournier. A UNIQUE AND SPECTACULAR COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. vii, 163 pp. ILLUSTRATED WITH A FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF SAMAIN BY JAMAS AND 25 WONDERFUL MIXED ETCHINGS BY CHESSA, JAMAS, AND LE SUEUR AFTER FOURNIER. From a total edition of 150 numbered copies, this is ONE OF ONLY TWENTY PRINTED IN LARGE FORMAT ON FINE ARCHES WOVE PAPER FOR "LES XX", THE MOST EXCLUSIVE BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY IN FRANCE. This copy, moreover, features A UNIQUE COLLECTION of 13 PROOFS OF EARLY STATES ON FINE LAID PAPER, seven of which are bons à tirer for the first (remarque) state, one of which is extensively annotated and all of which are SIGNED by the publisher. The other six are impressions of the second state. Fournier (1857-1917) is now best remembered in France for his frescoes in the Grand Palais, and in England for his painting "The Funeral of Shelley" (1889). Folio. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND by Carayon (signed) in quarter morocco and marbled boards. Two sets of wraps and backstrips preserved: that of the regular edition, and that of the Tirage spécial pour "Les 20". Early states are in a second volume, attractively bound in recent quarter cloth. Tiny traces of wear to bindings, else FINE AND BRIGHT. UNIQUE.