FRANCE (Anatole). Le Lys rouge. Paris, Librairie de la Collection des Dix - A. Romagnol, Éditeur, 1903. In-8° jésus, red half-maroquin with corners, double gilt fillet on covers, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head, illustrated cover (E. Merz rel.).

Compositions by Auguste-François GORGUET, tinted woodcuts by DESMOULINS, DUTHEIL and ROMAGNOL and fourteen color plates by Charles THÉVENIN; a frontispiece portrait of the author.
Edition of 275 copies, this one (no. 129), one of 175 on Arches vellum, containing, unjustified, two additional states of the final cul de lampe.
Discharges; foxing on first quire.
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FRANCE (Anatole). Le Lys rouge. Paris, Librairie de la Collection des Dix - A. Romagnol, Éditeur, 1903. In-8° jésus, red half-maroquin with corners, double gilt fillet on covers, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head, illustrated cover (E. Merz rel.). Compositions by Auguste-François GORGUET, tinted woodcuts by DESMOULINS, DUTHEIL and ROMAGNOL and fourteen color plates by Charles THÉVENIN; a frontispiece portrait of the author. Edition of 275 copies, this one (no. 129), one of 175 on Arches vellum, containing, unjustified, two additional states of the final cul de lampe. Discharges; foxing on first quire.

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FRANCE (Anatole). Le Lys rouge. Paris, Librairie de la Collection des Dix - A. Romagnol, Éditeur, 1903. In-8° jésus, red half-maroquin with corners, double gilt fillet on covers, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head, illustrated cover (E. Merz rel.). Compositions by Auguste-François GORGUET, tinted woodcuts by DESMOULINS, DUTHEIL and ROMAGNOL and fourteen color plates by Charles THÉVENIN; a frontispiece portrait of the author. Edition of 275 copies, this one (no. 129), one of 175 on Arches vellum, containing, unjustified, two additional states of the final cul de lampe. Discharges; foxing on first quire.
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