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Lot n° 319

STENDHAL

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Red and black. Textual reprint of the original edition. Preface by Léon Chapron. Paris, L. Conquet, 1884. 3 volumes in-8, red morocco, frame drawn by three strips of black morocco joined at the corners by a mosaic quatrefoil of black and red and charged with a small floral iron, the whole set with golden fillets and embellished with flowering lianas gilded with small irons, spine decorated in the same taste, double inner fillet and vegetable irons at the corners, head gilded, untrimmed, cover (Hans Asper). 80 compositions engraved with etching by H. Dubouchet. Edition of 500 copies, this one is one of the 350 on vellum in the vat. Seductive and rich binding with mosaic decoration in the colours of the title. From the Ernest Stroëhlin Library, with its ex-libris.