BARTHOU (Louis). Autour d'un album romantique, read in the a - Lot 160

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BARTHOU (Louis). Autour d'un album romantique, read in the a - Lot 160
BARTHOU (Louis). Autour d'un album romantique, read in the annual public session of the Cinq Académies on Monday 25 October 1920. Paris, Typographie de Firmin-Didot, 1920. In-4, [2] f., 17 p., brown morocco, spine with 4 nerves, author and title gilt, caissons bordered with a double cold fillet, boards framed with multiple cold fillets, counterpanes bordered with morocco with 6 gilt fillets, edges gilt [Marius Michel] (head cover uncovered, rubbing to the upper spine, nerves and corners). Unique copy printed especially for M. Louis Barthou, on japon paper. The autograph manuscript of this lecture is bound in: 14 pages handwritten in purple ink on the v° of a Senate letterhead. Provenance: Louis Barthou (engraved ex-libris and signed autograph ex-dono dated 26 February 1924. Attached, by the same author: Les amours d'un poète. Documents inédits sur Victor Hugo. Paris, Louis Conard 1919. Fort in-16, fawn morocco, spine with 5 nerves, author, title and date gilt, double gilt fillet at the edges, multiple gilt fillets at the edges of the back covers, gilt head, double cover and spine preserved, all margins preserved [Canape] (rubbing to the upper spine and nerves, binding a little sunned). Special edition of 20 copies on Arches laid paper, for "Les XX", with the special cover. Copy n°10 bearing the author's signature on the colophon. Autograph corrections and additions by the author on pages 1 and 265. Provenance: Louis Barthou (signed autograph ex-dono of June 25, 1923, with a long quotation from Montaigne).
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