HARAUCOURT (Edmond). Lot n° 33

The Effort. The Madonna. The Antichrist. Immortality. The End of the World. Paris, Les Bibliophiles contemporains, 1894. In-4, violet morocco, first cover decorated with a mosaic floral composition underlined by gilt fillets, covers framed with a gilt fillet with ornaments, spine decorated with gilt fleurons and mosaic flowers, lining in pink cloth embroidered with flowers framed in violet morocco decorated with a gilt floral garland, endpapers of the same cloth, double guards, gilt edges, cover and spine, slipcase (Champs) First edition of this collection of four tales, each illustrated by a different artist. The cover, the frontispiece and the title are illustrated with floral compositions in colors by Léon Rudnicki; La Madone with 18 lithographs in colors in the text by Alexandre Lunois; L'Antéchrist with 38 compositions in colors in the text by Eugène Courboin; L'Immortalité with 32 compositions in the text by Carlos Schwabe, of which 10 plates in black intaglio, etched by A. Massé; and finally La Fin du Monde with 46 monochrome drawings engraved in the text by Alexandre Séon. Limited edition of 182 copies on Arches vellum, this one printed for Gaston Tissandier. Spine slightly insolated.