NOLHAC Pierre de Lot n° 26

NOLHAC Pierre de Madame Vigée Le Brun - Painter to Queen Marie-Antoinette 1755-1842 Paris, Goupil et cie, Manzi, Joyant et cie, 1908 In-4°. Full blue chagrin (Durvand). Spine with 5 nerves decorated with gilt dots, double gilt thread in the entrenerfs framing an important gilt decoration. Large gilt lace covering almost entirely the boards. Gilt thread on the edges. Interior frame of same blue chagrin decorated with gilt. T. gilt. Covers and spine on board. First edition printed at 500 copies on Rives vellum. Illustrated with plates printed in monochrome on white Chine paper pasted down on tinted paper and 4 facsimile plates in colour. Very beautiful work dressed in a sumptuous signed binding. Provenance: Adelin Remy Library (ex-libris) - Andrée Lummerzheim Library (ex-libris)