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LELOIR (Maurice) & PRÉVOST (Antoine François...

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LELOIR (Maurice) & PRÉVOST (Antoine François d'Exiles, Abbé). Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux. Preface by Guy de MAUPASSANT. Paris, Launette, 1885. Fort volume in-4, copy no. 77 on japon impérial, with a triple suite of etchings by Maurice Leloir, one with remarks. It is enhanced by an original watercolor in brown monochrome by Leloir. Bound in full blue morocco, signed MAYLANDER, gilt edges, 2nd cover and first page in Louis XVI-style silk. Ex libris by H. Mareus. In cardboard slipcase.