Les Maîtresses. Comprenant 100 dessins en couleurs.
by Ferdinand Bac (Félicien Champsaur, introduction)
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sitges (BCN), Barcelona, Spain
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About This Item
Paris: H. Simonis Empis, Éditeur, 1897. ONE OF TEN NUMBERED COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER. XI pp + 100 humorously-captioned reproductions of drawings by Bac (1859-1952), Napoleon's illegitimate nephew. The drawings depict the role of women in Parisian society of the Belle Époque. From the collection of noted bibliophile Robert Masson, with his bookplate and ownership signature. 8vo. Attractively bound in quarter cloth and marbled boards by Léon Lemardeley (signed). Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Original wraps preserved. Light wear to extremities of binding, else FINE AND BRIGHT. COPIES ON JAPANESE PAPER ARE OF THE GREATEST RARITY.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cole & Contreras (ES)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39157
- Title
- Les Maîtresses. Comprenant 100 dessins en couleurs.
- Author
- Ferdinand Bac (Félicien Champsaur, introduction)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- H. Simonis Empis, Éditeur
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- coleillus colefrench
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Cole & Contreras
Biblio member since 2004
Sitges (BCN), Barcelona
About Cole & Contreras
We are located in sunny Sitges, on the Mediterranean Coast, half an hour from Barcelona. We have been dealing in rare books since 1991.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...