Jean RICHEPIN. La Mer. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous,... Lot 3

Jean RICHEPIN. La Mer. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, 1886. In-4, full mosaic morocco with a decoration on the smooth spine representing a coastal landscape with midnight blue, blue and grey sea, coastline in various shades of brown, large mullet coming out of the water on the first plate, boat and tail of the mullet on the second, mosaic inner frame, brown reps lining and endpapers, double endpapers, cover and spine, case (Binding of the first half of the XXth century) Vicaire, VI-1124 /// (3f.)-375 (numbered 373). ORIGINAL EDITION decorated with a portrait of Richepin. Edition of 500 copies, this one of 450 on vellum (n°64). Some traces of white powder in the mosaic fillets requiring cleaning, foxing on several leaves.