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BALZAC, Honoré de. La Peau de Chagrin. Etudes sociales, Paris: H. Delloye, Victor Lecou, 1838. Large 8°, title vignette and 100 other steel-engraved illustrations by Brunellière, Nargeot and others after Gavarni, Baron, Janet-Lange, Franais and Marckl (without the 2 engraved portraits, which are rarely present), mid 19th-century hard-grained green morocco by G. Bellew, Dublin, covers gilt-stamped with large design of an urn holding stylised flowers, with onlays of red, white and black morocco forming the petals (small hole in spine, upper joints rubbed and slightly cracked, corners rubbed), pink patterned endpapers, g.e. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with vignette of a skeleton on title. Vicaire I, 184.
FREUDENBERG, Sigismond and Jean-Michel MOREAU LE JEUNE, illustrators. Estampes ... pour le Monument du Costum gravées par Dubouchet [pour servir à l'histoire des modes et du costume en France dans le dix huitième siècle], Paris: L. Conquet, 1883-81. 2 parts in 3 volumes, large 8°, 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 titles, 6 contents leaves and 36 plates after Freudenberg and Moreau le Jeune, ALL ETCHED AND IN 3 STATES, TEXT ALL ENGRAVED, contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards by V. Champs, uncut. Provenance: The publisher, L. Conquet's, copy with his bookplate in volume I and manuscript note on the limitation leaf of volume II. Also with morocco book label of Francis Kettaneh. Limited to 370 copies. This one of 20 copies on Japan paper with the plates in 3 states (preliminary etched proofs, advanced etched proofs and finished proofs), all before letters. Colas I, 1128 & 1129 -- and 3 other illustrated volumes in French.
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FREUDENBERG, Sigismond and Jean-Michel MOREAU LE JEUNE, illustrators. Estampes ... pour le Monument du Costum gravées par Dubouchet [pour servir à l'histoire des modes et du costume en France dans le dix huitième siècle], Paris: L. Conquet, 1883-81. 2 parts in 3 volumes, large 8°, 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 titles, 6 contents leaves and 36 plates after Freudenberg and Moreau le Jeune, ALL ETCHED AND IN 3 STATES, TEXT ALL ENGRAVED, contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards by V. Champs, uncut. Provenance: The publisher, L. Conquet's, copy with his bookplate in volume I and manuscript note on the limitation leaf of volume II. Also with morocco book label of Francis Kettaneh. Limited to 370 copies. This one of 20 copies on Japan paper with the plates in 3 states (preliminary etched proofs, advanced etched proofs and finished proofs), all before letters. Colas I, 1128 & 1129 -- and 3 other illustrated volumes in French.
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