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Lot n° 35

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Les Sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux. Paris, Librairie des amateurs, Ferroud, 1921. In-8, blue morocco, framed with straight and curved, full and stippled cold fillets, a fawn morocco scroll with red morocco motif in the corners, and a gilt fleuron in the corners, smooth spine decorated with gilded fillets and scrolls in fawn morocco forming two cartouches, inner frame decorated with gilded fillets with plant motifs at the corners, blue faille lining and endpapers, gilded head, untrimmed, cover and spine, case (Flammarion - E. Mainfroy). Mainfroy). Color illustrations by Gustave-Adolphe Mossa etched by Eugène Decisy. One of 200 copies on japon, this one containing 2 states of the illustrations, one in black. Elegant decorated binding by Flammarion. Spine slightly faded.