TALLIBART, binder. Le Tombeau de Théophile Gautier [poems by Hugo, Banville, Bergerat, Coppée, Swinburne, Anatole France, and approximately 75 others]. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1873. 4to, 237 x 192 x 27mm. (9 5/16 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/16in.), brown crushed levant morocco, upper cover with Art Nouveau design of a double-stemmed candelabra forming a three-quarter border intertwined with stylized violets, at lower center a flaming torch on a swirling stand, double fleur-de-lys at either side, in onlaid green, purple, yellow, red, light brown and chocolate morocco, at the center of the lower cover an onlaid morocco violet plant with three flowers, spine in six compartments, the second gilt-lettered, navy blue morocco doublures within gilt fillet border, royal blue faille silk liners, original printed wrappers bound in, t.e.g., others uncut, gilt-stamped on upper turn-in: "Tallibart", one onlay of upper cover slightly detached, joints lightly rubbed. Etched frontispiece-portrait, and an inserted aquatint portrait, line block initials and head-piece ornaments; THIS COPY WITH 16 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OR NOTES SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTORS tipped in onto inserted leaves of heavy paper, including Jean Aicard (autograph poem signed), Paul Arène, Théodore de Banville, Emile Bergerat, Auguste de Chatillon (2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf, loosely inserted), Jules Clarétie, Léon Cladel, François Coppée, Camille Doucet, Emmanuel Des Essarts, Paul Ferrier, Arsène Houssaye, Jules Janin, Ernest Legouvé, Catulle Mendès, and Charles Monselet, each one page, 8vo or smaller, except as noted. (Maxwell)

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TALLIBART, binder. Le Tombeau de Théophile Gautier [poems by Hugo, Banville, Bergerat, Coppée, Swinburne, Anatole France, and approximately 75 others]. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1873. 4to, 237 x 192 x 27mm. (9 5/16 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/16in.), brown crushed levant morocco, upper cover with Art Nouveau design of a double-stemmed candelabra forming a three-quarter border intertwined with stylized violets, at lower center a flaming torch on a swirling stand, double fleur-de-lys at either side, in onlaid green, purple, yellow, red, light brown and chocolate morocco, at the center of the lower cover an onlaid morocco violet plant with three flowers, spine in six compartments, the second gilt-lettered, navy blue morocco doublures within gilt fillet border, royal blue faille silk liners, original printed wrappers bound in, t.e.g., others uncut, gilt-stamped on upper turn-in: "Tallibart", one onlay of upper cover slightly detached, joints lightly rubbed. Etched frontispiece-portrait, and an inserted aquatint portrait, line block initials and head-piece ornaments; THIS COPY WITH 16 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OR NOTES SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTORS tipped in onto inserted leaves of heavy paper, including Jean Aicard (autograph poem signed), Paul Arène, Théodore de Banville, Emile Bergerat, Auguste de Chatillon (2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf, loosely inserted), Jules Clarétie, Léon Cladel, François Coppée, Camille Doucet, Emmanuel Des Essarts, Paul Ferrier, Arsène Houssaye, Jules Janin, Ernest Legouvé, Catulle Mendès, and Charles Monselet, each one page, 8vo or smaller, except as noted. (Maxwell)