GAUTIER (Théophile). The comedy of death. Paris, Desessart, - Lot 233

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GAUTIER (Théophile). The comedy of death. Paris, Desessart, - Lot 233
GAUTIER (Théophile). The comedy of death. Paris, Desessart, 1838. In-8, [2] f., 375 p., [2] f., front cover, half morocco with long bronze green grains, spine with 5 nerves decorated with a gilt roulette, author, title and date gilt, ornamented caissons, gilt fillet on the boards, cover and spine preserved [Champs] (corners, headpieces and spines rubbed). First edition, of which only a few copies were printed on large vellum paper. It is decorated with a woodcut vignette by Lacoste jeune after Louis Boulanger on the frontispiece. A copy with full margins (h=232mm). Provenance: Eugène Lazare Richtenberger (1856-1920), art critic (sale 1921, n°254; engraved bookplate). (Carteret I, 324; Talvart & Place VI, 317). Attached, by the same author: Militona. Paris, Desessart, 1847. In-8, [2] f., 336 p., blue half-maroquin with corners, spine with 5 nerves, author, title, place and date gilt, monogram gilt on tail, double cold fillet on covers, gilt head, covers preserved [Small] (2 corners dulled, 2 others a little crushed, rubbing to nerves and headpieces). First edition from which no large papers were printed. Provenance: Paul Louis Arnaudet, who died in 1878, the year his library, one of the first to collect selected copies of literary works of his time, was sold; his figure appears on the spine of the binding, and his bookplate engraved on the counterfoil; Louis Cros-Bonnel (1855-1925), industrialist, deputy of Hérault (engraved bookplate); Eugène Lazare Richtenberger (1856-1920), art critic (sale 1921, n°260; engraved bookplate). (Carteret I, 328; Talvart & Place VI, 320). 2 volumes.
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