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Lot n° 16

GONCOURT (Edmond de).

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La Fille Elisa. Compositions and etchings by Georges Jeanniot. P., Emile Testard, "Collection des Dix", 1895, large 8°, full fawn morocco, quadruple gilt fillet on covers, 5-nerved spine threaded, author, title, date, gilt decorated caissons, gilt edges, gilt filleted coupes, counterplates edged and decorated with wide gilt lace, combed paper endpapers, cover and spine cons. bookplate (binding signed M[arcellin] Lortic). Illustrated with 60 drawings and sketches in the text and 10 original etchings outside the text. Limited edition of 300 copies, 1/40 vellum, 3rd paper after 12 Japon and 38 Chine, including a triple suite of etchings. A very fine copy in an impeccably executed binding by Marcellin Lortic, a French gilding bookbinder (1852-1928).