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GAUTIER, Théophile. Le Romain de la Momie, Paris: A. & G. Mornay, [1929]. 8° (195 x 145mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece, title and illustrations by George Barbier. Contemporary half morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Alfred de Curzon (armorial bookplate). ONE OF 91 "HORS COMMERCE" COPIES.
With 18 other French works in 23 leather-bound volumes including Victor Hugo's Hernani ... nouvelle édition (Paris, 1878, extra-illustrated, NO. 10 OF 15 COPIES "SUR JAPON"), Alain-Renae le Sage's Histoire de Gil Blas (Paris, 1879, 4 vols., vellum gilt, NUMBER 182 OF 210 COPIES), Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie (Paris, 1886, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES), Théophile Gautier's Omphale (Paris, 1896, NO. 98 OF 300 COPIES) and Frantz Funck-Brentano's Le Roi ... quatrième édition (Paris, 1920, with a one-page autograph letter from the author). (24)
With 18 other French works in 23 leather-bound volumes including Victor Hugo's Hernani ... nouvelle édition (Paris, 1878, extra-illustrated, NO. 10 OF 15 COPIES "SUR JAPON"), Alain-Renae le Sage's Histoire de Gil Blas (Paris, 1879, 4 vols., vellum gilt, NUMBER 182 OF 210 COPIES), Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie (Paris, 1886, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES), Théophile Gautier's Omphale (Paris, 1896, NO. 98 OF 300 COPIES) and Frantz Funck-Brentano's Le Roi ... quatrième édition (Paris, 1920, with a one-page autograph letter from the author). (24)
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