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DE LABESSADE, Léon-Félix. L'amour du livre. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1904. Small 4° (197 x 129mm). Three illustrations pre-text, title with vignette, foliated head- and tail-pieces. Brown morocco gilt by Canape, 1926, supralibros on sides. Provenance: Antonio Creus, 1925. NUMBER 7 OF 10 COPIES ON JAPAN PAPER, limited to 60 special copies overall.
With 5 other works in 8° or 12°: Damase Jouaust, Ultima: notes et chroniques. Paris: 1891. Author's presentation copy to N. Bardon; Bernard-Henri Gausseron, Bouquiniana: notes et notules d'un bibliogue. Paris: 1901. One of 10 copies on Japan; Gabriel Hanotaux, La Seine et les quais. Paris: 1901. Etching by A. Robida. Original manuscript, 4°, 13pp, in purple ink, headed 'L'Exposition de 1900. La Seine et les quais', presumably in the hand of Hanotaux, folded and bound in at end (incomplete). Ms note by [?]Hereda commenting on this 'charmant petit livre'; Albert Cim, Amateurs et voleurs de livres. Paris: 1903. Plates. One of 10 copies on Holland. See the illustration above; Jules Lemaitre, Les vieux livres. Paris: 1906. In morocco bindings by Canape, Balmes and Marius-Michel. (6)
With 5 other works in 8° or 12°: Damase Jouaust, Ultima: notes et chroniques. Paris: 1891. Author's presentation copy to N. Bardon; Bernard-Henri Gausseron, Bouquiniana: notes et notules d'un bibliogue. Paris: 1901. One of 10 copies on Japan; Gabriel Hanotaux, La Seine et les quais. Paris: 1901. Etching by A. Robida. Original manuscript, 4°, 13pp, in purple ink, headed 'L'Exposition de 1900. La Seine et les quais', presumably in the hand of Hanotaux, folded and bound in at end (incomplete). Ms note by [?]Hereda commenting on this 'charmant petit livre'; Albert Cim, Amateurs et voleurs de livres. Paris: 1903. Plates. One of 10 copies on Holland. See the illustration above; Jules Lemaitre, Les vieux livres. Paris: 1906. In morocco bindings by Canape, Balmes and Marius-Michel. (6)