HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl) - RAFFAËLLI (Jean-François) - FORAIN (Jean-Louis).
Parisian Sketches.
Paris : Henri Vaton, 1880. - In-8, 221 x 164 : frontispiece, 108 pp., (1 f.), 9 plates, printed cover. Half lemon morocco, smooth spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved (Kama Rok).
First edition, illustrated with 8 original etchings outside the text, 4 by Jean-Louis FORAIN and 4 by Jean-François RAFFAËLLI.
Copy on Hollande paper including in addition the 2 etchings by Forain which had been refused by Huysmans and which were intended for the chapter "Folies Bergère", which is not found in all copies.
Some scattered foxing.
Attached :
- HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl) - RAFFAËLLI (Jean-François). The Vatard Sisters. Preface by Lucien Descaves. Paris : Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud Successeur, 1909. - In-8, frontispiece, (2 ff.), VI pp., (1 f.), 262 pp, (1 f.), 4 plates, printed cover. Brown half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated with interlaced red morocco squares and rectangles, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Blanchetière).
Beautiful edition printed at 250 copies, illustrated with 28 original etchings by Jean-François RAFFAËLLI, including 5 hors texte in colours.
One of the 140 copies on Arches vellum paper (n° 243).
Beautiful copy in a mosaic binding by Blanchetière.
Spine slightly faded.
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