JANIN, Jules and JOHANNOT, Tony. L'Âne mort. Illustrated edi - Lot 197

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JANIN, Jules and JOHANNOT, Tony. L'Âne mort. Illustrated edi - Lot 197
JANIN, Jules and JOHANNOT, Tony. L'Âne mort. Illustrated edition by Tony Johannot. Paris, Ernest Bourdin, 1842. Large in-8, bottle-green half-chagrin edged with gilt fillet, smooth spine adorned with romantic scroll decoration, title and name of bookbinder "L. Lebrun" in gilt lettering in a wide gilt frame, percaline boards decorated with geometrical cold-embossed decoration, gilt head. Vintage binding, signed Louis Lebrun. XVI and 306 pages, 2 frontispieces including 1 steel-engraved portrait of the author by Revel, 1 engraved title vignette, 12 off-text woodcuts under serpents, printed on a chine-tinted ground, and 100 in-text vignettes, head and tailpieces, all engraved after Tony Johannot, a few ornamented lettrines. Spine warped, binding rubbed, corners bent. Some foxing, mainly on the plates, without affecting the china paper on which the engravings are printed. First illustrated edition and first printing of the illustration by Tony Johannot, comprising 2 frontispieces including 1 steel-engraved portrait of the author by Revel, 12 wood-engraved plates hors texte by Hébert, J. Thompson, Piaud, H. Harrison, Dujardin, Lavieille, Gray, Quartley et Cowland, Th. Williams, Orrin Smith, printed on a tinted background, and 100 wood-engraved vignettes in the text. [Vicaire, IV, 520] Copy of Louis Batigne with his bookplate label on the flyleaf. Pleasant romantic binding by Lebrun, fairly fresh inside.
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